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 private detective, later the police officer. A crime and its solution proved a popular model for readers. Later through broadcast media we got the police procedural genre, which has developed its own tropes and styles, some of them built around the realities of law enforcement and some built from traditional dramatic techniques.
These vicious felonies
These vicious felonies
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 private detective, later the police officer. A crime and its solution proved a popular model for readers. Later through broadcast media we got the police procedural genre, which has developed its own tropes and styles, some of them built around the realities of law enforcement and some built from traditional dramatic techniques.