Law & Order: Criminal Intent 

The show follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points. The first half of the show concentrates on the investigation of the crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the crime in court.

This show introduces the Special Victims Unit, a new elite squad of NYPD detectives who investigate sexually related crimes.

The cases of an FBI unit specializing in missing persons investigations.

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases" -- older crimes that have never been solved.

CSI Head Detective Mac Taylor and his team solve crimes in New York City.

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

The cases of the Miami-Dade, Florida police department's Crime Scene Investigations unit.

From point of view of the Los Angeles police detectives who investigate crimes and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.

The cases of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Washington DC Major Case Response Team, led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

The cases of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation's most dangerous serial killers and individual heinous crimes in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they strike again.

The series shows the workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment and continuing through the lawyers process of building a case, investigating leads and preparing witnesses and defendants for trial.