Lethality assessment (LAP) and team monitoring of high-risk offenders (DVHRT) are recent U.S. policy innovations designed to identify domestic violence offenders who are at high risk for perpetrating serious or lethal violence against their intimate partners. One goal of LAP/DVHRT is to increase offenders’ accountability for domestic violence within the legal system. This study examines associations between LAP/DVHRT and prosecution and sentencing outcomes using data on domestic violence offenses (n = 88) involving 37 offenders monitored by a DVHRT and 51 nonmonitored comparison offenders who were identified as high risk on the LAP. We use logistic and OLS regression to estimate models of six prosecution and sentencing outcomes for the full sample and for a sample matched using the coarsened exact matching technique (n = 73). Multivariate results indicate that when the treatment and comparison samples are matched and control variables are included in regression models, the LAP/DVHRT program is not associated with prosecution or conviction rates, number of charges, or bail amount. DVHRT monitoring is positively associated with sentence length in multivariate analysis and in models using the matched sample. Findings suggest that the LAP/DVHRT program increases offender accountability in the form of incapacitation at the sentencing stages.

致命性评估 (LAP) 和高危罪犯团队监测 (DVHRT) 是美国最近的政策创新，旨在识别有可能对其亲密伴侣实施严重或致命暴力的家庭暴力罪犯。LAP/DVHRT 的目标之一是在法律体系内增加犯罪者对家庭暴力的责任。本研究使用家庭暴力犯罪数据（n= 88) 涉及由 DVHRT 监测的 37 名罪犯和 51 名在 LAP 上被确定为高风险的非监测比较罪犯。我们使用逻辑和 OLS 回归来估计完整样本和使用粗化精确匹配技术匹配的样本的六种起诉和量刑结果模型（n= 73)。多变量结果表明，当治疗和比较样本匹配且控制变量包含在回归模型中时，LAP/DVHRT 计划与起诉或定罪率、指控数量或保释金额无关。在多变量分析和使用匹配样本的模型中，DVHRT 监测与句子长度呈正相关。调查结果表明，LAP/DVHRT 计划以在量刑阶段丧失行为能力的形式增加了罪犯的责任。