All for Nothing: The killer from 'Neighborhood Watch' killed the victim because he always wanted to know what it was like to kill someone, but ended up deeply regretting it, not because it was wrong to do, but because of what a hassle the aftermath of the murder was.To this, Goren spares no mercy saying how the same hands they use to tuck their daughters in at night brutally strangled two children the same age as them.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The killer in 'Badge' upon learning that they were going to be arrested for the quadruple murders done in the episode, cries out to the detectives before breaking down in tears 'Please don't take me away from my girls!' (their daughters).Turns out, the witness was her biological mother and one of the killers of her parents. Upon speaking with another witness, an older athletic woman, about the girl's whereabouts, they notice both a bag of cheese puffs and a bottle of Yoo-hoo left out in the open and order her to come out of hiding, which she does. At one point, the detectives are looking for a missing teenaged girl who was a witness after the murders of her adoptive parents. Age-Stereotypical Food: 'The Good Child' plays with this.

During a reenactment of the Hamilton-Burr duel, a sniper was supposed to take out one of the two men, the obnoxious and psychologically abusive husband of a Senator, but the actors ended up switching roles at the last minute (and the sniper was too far away to make out the features of the pair, so he was basing his target on their costumes), so the other guy ended up being killed instead.

Accidental Murder: A variation in 'Albatross'.

Logan's first episode as a main cast member makes reference to him having been physically abused by his alcoholic mother, a fact that was established in the original series.

Goren was this to her younger son, namely psychologically abusive and neglectful, in spite of him being the one who cared for her in her final months.

Even if she was sick with schizophrenia, it was still implied Mrs.

GorenВ’s older half-brother, Frank, is implied to have been relatively scarce for most of his now-adult son's life.

The biological parents from 'The Good Child,' who killed their daughter's adoptive parents and then tried to kill her as well so that they would inherit the payout from the adoptive parents' life insurance.

He wasn't abusive per se (he clearly loved his family), but his actions proved him to be incredibly irresponsible at best. which caused his family to be kidnapped for collateral and his elder daughter to be raped.

Other: The father from 'Homo Homini Lupis,' who embezzled from his company and took money from a loan shark to pay it back.

Sexual abuse: 'Death Roe,' 'Playing Dead.'.

Verbal abuse/ Preferring one child over the other: 'Beast,' 'Wrongful Life,' 'Unrequited', 'Bedfellows,' 'Saving Face.'.

Neglect/Indifference: 'Shrink-Wrapped,' 'Tru Love.'.

Psychological abuse: 'The Saint,' 'Shibboleth,' 'Magnificat' note although this one is primarily directed at the other parent, 'Diamond Dogs'.

Abusive Parents: An abundance of them, most of them seen to be something other than physically abusive and who usually end up being a Karma Houdini:.

Law and order criminal intent