Newer seasons resonate strong messages and take a multi-faceted lens to sex crimes as our awareness on the topic increases. Benson in the latter half of the series, shines as a positive role model with strong core values that withstand and always brings hope, compassion, understanding and empathy. Latter half of the series also focuses on mental health and open social commentary topics, including police brutality, positive frame of sex work, LGBTQIA+ themes, racism, sexism, systemic inequality, and recognition of trauma/healing. Best recommended to watch with teenagers, as each episode opens with some form of rape or sexual assault in various forms, and opens the floor to talk about themes such as consent, good and bad touch, mindfulness and awareness and responsibility and accountability. Some episodes can have dark emotional tones that may have to be screened by parents before teenagers watch. Overall, good role models, especially in the later half of the series, particularly coming from Benson, Fin and others. Teenagers should be fine watching this, no younger than 13, sexual violence is a fundamental plot point throughout the series, alcohol use is limited with the characters sometimes using alcohol as a means to cope with the stress of their jobs, language is frequent throughout, crude descriptions of sexual activity are frequently given by the suspected perpetrators, some episodes have intense emotional scenes that can be unnerving to watch and may need to be screened by parents in advance.