These vicious felonies
Next month, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will start its 23rd season. It is the longest running police procedural currently on TV (the UK cop drama, The Bill, ran for 27 years until 2010).
The procedural itself is a fantastic artifact of popular culture. In the nineteenth century, fiction writers turned to the detective as a subject: first the privat…
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