Well, getting back to the TV show, the protrayal of bad guys, and how
they're dealt with --it always seemed to me that the BGs had some kind
of final consequence by the end of the show. They always either went to
prison, committed suicide, killed by the victim/family/friend of the victim,
or killed by some other BG they were involved with in either the same kind
of lifestyle or a different shade of the underworld.
Everything was always wrapped up nicely by the end of show one way or
another.
Doesn't reflect reality at all.
The BG who commits a sexual crime will rarely see the inside of a prison,
and probably not even see the inside of a courtroom at least for the sexual
crime --maybe something else, though, like drug dealing, theft, etc. I can
think of one case in the last 20 years where one was killed by a past victim
(who also committed suicide and this was 10-20 years after the sexual acts
were alleged to have happened --I have to say "alleged" because the original
complaint by the victim never made it through the court process, right?). I'm
not recalling a perp who committed suicide --accidental death by DUI, yes. I
guess we could sort of consider that some lifestyle choices biting back. I
can recall one case where the BG was done in by other BGs in the BG ring
(which has nothing to do with his past sex crimes --it was about the family
drug business). However, it was interesting in that case to see the defense
for one of the BGs use the "...and he (the dead BG) was also a sexual abuser!"
[gasp]
as part of the defense for their BG.
SVU does a great job portraying the victims, BGs, and the circumstances of
the crimes involved. Just not the aftermath. It's great old Soviet style
socialist realism in which reality is portrayed as it should be, not as it is.
