Olivia Benson

When [[Brian Cassidy]] was accused of raping ex-hooker Heather Riggs he tried the case without prejudice and was close to winning the case despite efforts by his lawyer Barry Querns to prove Brian's innocence. He called Heather, one of her former co-workers and Det. Amaro to the stand to present his case and eventually got Brian to say something incriminating on the stand. Eventually it was revealed that Heather was conspiring with [[Bart Ganzel]] to frame Brian and eventually sue the city and…

When a rape occurs, our society almost always assumes that a man assaulted a woman, hardly ever the other way around. The idea of a woman raping a man in our western society is taboo. Women are seen as fragile creatures, not capable of committing such a crime. However, contrary to popular belief, at least one in every thirty-three men report being raped. This particular issue was portrayed in the sixteenth year, episode seventeen of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. In this particular episode…

“You survived the abuse. You’re going to survive the recovery” (Olivia Benson). Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is a television show that portrays political cases about sexual assaults, homicides, and sex trafficking. Each episode brings up new cases and problems to solve. The show may display extreme circumstances such as having a scenario in which two women are sexually assaulted Law and Order SVU is an extremely beneficial show to audiences nationwide, educating viewers on different…

conclusion of the episode. Yet it does its best to not victimize their victims like in other shows such as CSI. In Law & Order this isn’t show each character is handled with respect this would also extend to the other characters. With the character of Olivia Benson who is a strong willed single mother how takes on hard cases that would break others. She is thrown in to cases that would test her ability not as women but just like her male counterparts the ability to solve the case all the while…

mother’s name and using it to get television and film roles, she never changed her name, hair color or appearance. She also refused to do nude photos as her mother had done. Number Two: She Brings Home Some Serious Bacon Hargitay’s character Olivia Benson does more than help rape victims, it also helped Hargitay become the highest paid television actress. Despite this, fame and fortune has not changed her personally. Number One: She Works Outside of Acting Going along with the nature of…

complexities of the conversation. Take for example the meeting that occurred between Lieutenant Olivia Benson and her son’s teacher, Mrs. Smiley, on the TV show Law and Order: SVU. The meeting took place to discuss a bruise found on the arm of Benson’s son, Noah. This seemingly normal parent-teacher conversation took a turn early on when Mrs. Smiley revealed that Noah had told the school nurse that Benson caused the bruise on his arm; creating tension throughout the rest of the meeting. The…

up. Conversely, the role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now it is coming to a more positive perspective. The society where in Intersecting Lives is happening and for me the current nowadays the detective Olivia as soon she knew what happened with those female inmates she went further into all evidence and never gave up until arrest Mr. Munson. “It’s still the word of a CO versus a black single mother with a drug problem and prison record” (Wolf,…

Shakespeare’s Attitude to Puritanism in his Plays The term “Puritan” appeared in England around 1565 as a reference to the abuse of religious propaganda in the period. German refugees brought into England the notion of pure primitive church and purity of reform. One of the first printed uses of the term originated in a Catholic attack on an Anglican policy statement and later as an argument of Protestant leaders against Elizabeth’s keeping of the crucifix on her chapel altar. Puritanism can be…

They were able to discover his apartment building and that Bruno’s mom, Maneulla, is a drug addict. During this detectives Carissi and Benson go to Child Protective Services (CPS) and show caseworkers a picture of Bruno. They find Bruno’s file and the caseworker assigned to Bruno takes them to his apartment after being told about how Bruno was wandering the streets the night before. When…

Law & Order is a television drama series that depicts the procedural practices of the legal system in the United States. Scholars have emphasized that the show falsifies images about policing styles and prosecution methods beyond mere recognition. Unfortunately, Law & Order and other similar legal drama shows has had a negative impact on the legal system in the United States because viewers believe the events that occur are factual. According to Neubauer and Fradella (2014), “Professors have to…