ADA Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr. is a former detective at the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. He is currently an assistant district attorney and married to Amanda Rollins. Together they have one son, Dominick “Nicky” Carisi III. He is an Italian-American Catholic, religion that Carisi shows to be devoted, not only in the series every time he sees a dead body but crossing himself (a Catholic practice) but whenever he goes to church. He is named after his father Dominick I who he describes "as sti
