Crime & Punishment

This article is about the television show. For the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, see Crime and Punishment.

Crime & Punishment
Created by	Bill Guttentag David Kanter Dick Wolf
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	June 16, 2002 (2002-06-16) – July 17, 2004 (2004-07-17)

Crime & Punishment is a 2002 reality television spin-off of the Law & Order franchise. It premiered on NBC on Sunday, June 16, 2002, and ran through the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Description

"In the criminal justice system, deputy district attorneys represent the people. The prosecutors you are about to see, and the cases they try, are real. Nothing has been reenacted."

          –Opening narration spoken by Steven Zirnkilton

The series goes inside the District Attorney's office of San Diego County, California, as they prepared and tried cases. It involved going behind the scenes with the prosecutors as they prepared for the trial and provided three-camera coverage of the courtroom. Crime & Punishment has been described as a cross between a drama and a documentary or "docudrama". The series was created and executive produced by Wolf, along with Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bill Guttentag. David J. Kanter is co-creator and executive producer, and follows prosecutors from the San Diego County District Attorney’s office as they investigate and try cases, while viewers see the drama unfold from real-life victims, prosecutors, family members and defendants. Based on reports from real-life cases.

The main theme was a remix of the Law & Order theme.

External links

• Crime & Punishment at the Internet Movie Database
• Crime & Punishment at TV.com