Dominick Carisi, Jr.

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 * Gina Carisi
 * Mia Morino
 * Nikki
 * Jesse Rollins
 * Billie Rollins
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ADA Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr was a detective with the Special Victims Unit and is now an Assistant District Attorney.

History
Carisi was first introduced after being transferred into the precinct after Sergeant Benson put in a request for an "experienced, empathetic Detective" following the temporary demotion of Nick Amaro to patrol officer. He also replaced Amaro as the lead male of the SVU after his departure at the end of Season 16. He was in Staten Island Special Victims Unit for two months, Brooklyn for almost a month and Queens for a week (before that, he was an officer on Staten Island). He also worked in the Homicide Unit for a couple years. Though his brash and argumentative attitude has placed him at odds with Benson and the others, he's shown a knack for interrogations, by pretending to empathize with suspects and getting them to open up to him.

He passed his bar exam in 2016, but following the brutal death of Sergeant Mike Dodds, he decided to stay with the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. He later served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Sergeant Dodds, who was shot to death by Gary Munson, a corrupt Rikers Island corrections and serial rapist who held his wife, Lisa, hostage. At the bar following the service, Carisi toasts Mike as "the bravest cop we ever worked with".

Carisi told a young boy that when he was a boy, he was pushed through a glass window by a bully and stayed silent, out of fear that the bully would come back and attack him again. A few years later, Carisi found out that his bully had murdered someone in a fight and was imprisoned at Rikers for it. He then said that he regrets not speaking up about the assault.

In 2019, Carisi was promoted to Assistant District Attorney for the Special Victims Unit, replacing ADA Peter Stone, who had quit his job. Benson and Rollins both attended his first arraignment against a serial rapist who had raped several young, aspiring actresses. Carisi said that he practiced Barba's summations in front of his mirror.

Appearances

 * Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * Season 16
 * Season 17
 * Season 18
 * Season 19
 * Season 20
 * Season 21
 * Season 22