In 2019, New York put a law on the books allowing leniency in sentencing for domestic abuse survivors convicted of crimes, enshrining a basic concept that has long been known to police prosecutors—that perpetrators of violence are sometimes victims of violence themselves.
But this is the nuanced approach with which Michelle Kaminsky, a veteran domestic violence prosecutor with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, has taken through her three-decade legal career.
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