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Name __________________________________ JUVIS Control Number |__|__|__|__|__|__| Referral R |__|__|__|
Last First
Initiated _____/_____/_____ SCOMIS Number |__|__|–8–|__|__|__|__|__|–|__|
Month Day Year
Criminal History
Referrals, rather than offenses, are used to assess the persistence of re-offending by the youth.
Youth has been living in Washington State since age: ______ Enter 0 if from birth
Other states in which youth has lived since age 10: _______________________________________________
_
______
Enter the number and then circle
the appropriate score
1. Age at first offense: The age at the time of the offense for which the youth was referred to
juvenile court for the first time on a non-traffic misdemeanor or felony that resulted in a
conviction, diversion, deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition.
_______
0 – Over 16
1 – 16
2 – 15
3 – 13 to 14
4 – Under 13
2. Misdemeanor referrals: Total number of referrals in which the most serious offense was a
non-traffic misdemeanor that resulted in a conviction, diversion, deferred adjudication, or
deferred disposition (regardless of whether successfully completed).
_______
0 – None or one
1 – Two
2 – Three or four
3 – Five or more
3. Felony referrals: Total number of referrals for a felony offense that resulted in a conviction,
diversion, deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition (regardless of whether successfully
completed).
______
0 – None
2 – One
4 – Two
6 – Three or more
4. Weapon referrals: Total number of referrals in which the most serious offense was a
firearm/weapon charge that resulted in a conviction, diversion, deferred adjudication, or
deferred disposition (regardless of whether successfully completed), or a weapon
enhancement finding.
______
0 – None
1 – One or more
5. Against-person misdemeanor referrals: Total number of referrals in which the most
serious offense was an against-person misdemeanor that resulted in a conviction, diversion,
deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition (regardless of whether successfully
completed). An against-person misdemeanor involves threats, force, or physical harm to
another person such as an assault, sex, coercion, harassment, obscene phone call, etc.
______
0 – None
1 – One
2 – Two or more
6. Against-person felony referrals: Total number of referrals for an against-person felony that
resulted in a conviction, diversion, deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition (regardless
of whether successfully completed). An against-person felony involves force or physical
harm to another person such as homicide, murder, manslaughter, assault, rape, sex,
robbery, kidnapping, domestic violence, harassment, criminal mistreatment, intimidation,
coercion, obscene harassing phone call, etc.
______
0 – None
2 – One or two
4 – Three or more
7. Disposition orders where youth served at least one day confined in detention: Total
number of disposition and modification orders in which youth served at least one day
physically confined in a county detention facility. A day served includes credit for time
served. Detention includes physical confinement in a county detention facility.
______
0 – None
1 – One
2 – Two
3 – Three or more
8. Disposition orders where youth served at least one day confined under JRA: Total
number of disposition orders and modification orders in which the youth served at least one
day confined under the authority of the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (JRA). A day
served includes credit for time served.
______
0 – None
2 – One
4 – Two or more
9. Escapes: Total number of attempted or actual escapes that resulted in a conviction.
______
0 – None
1 – One
2 – Two or more
10. Failure -to-appear in court warrants: Total number of failures-to-appear in court that
resulted in a warrant being issued. Exclude failure-to-appear warrants for non-criminal
matters.
______
0 – None
1 – One
2 – Two or more
Criminal History Score: (Maximum of 31 points) ______
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Social History
Check the boxes and then circle the appropriate score
Youth’s Gender Male: 1
Youth’s current school enrollment status, regardless of
attendance: If the youth is in home school as a result of being
expelled or dropping out, check the expelled or dropped out box,
otherwise check enrolled.
¨ Graduated, GED ¨ Suspended
¨ Enrolled full-time ¨ Dropped out
¨ Enrolled part-time ¨ Expelled
Youth’s conduct in the most recent term: Fighting or threatening
students; threatening teachers/staff; overly disruptive behavior;
drug/alcohol use; crimes, e.g., theft, vandalism; lying, cheating,
dishonesty. Check all that apply.
¨ No problems
¨ Problems reported by teachers
¨ Calls to parents
¨ Calls to police
Youth’s attendance in the most recent term: Full-day absence
means missing majority of classes. Partial-day absence means
attending the majority of classes and missing the minority.
A truancy petition is equal to 7 unexcused absences in a month or 10
in a year.
¨ No unexcused absences
¨ Some partial-day unexcused absences
¨ Some full-day unexcused absences
¨ Truancy petition filed, or equivalent full-day
unexcused absences, or withdrawn within last six
months
Youth’s academic performance in the most recent school term:
Check all that apply.
¨ Honor student ¨ Failing some classes
¨ C or better ¨ Failing most classes
¨ Lower than C
Enrolled and: misconduct reported but no
police calls, or some full-day unexcused
absences, or failing some classes.
Enrolled and: calls to police, or truancy petition
or equivalent, or failing most classes.
Dropped out, expelled or suspended.
1
2
2
Friends the youth actually spends his or her time with: Check all
that apply.
¨ No companions, no consistent friends
¨ Positive pro-social friends
¨ Negative anti-social friends
¨
Gang member/associate
No friends or positive and negative friends
All negative anti-social friends
Gang member/associate
1
2
3
Court-ordered or DSHS voluntary out-of-home and shelter care
placements exceeding 30 days: Enter zero if none, up to a
maximum of 5 placements. Exclude JRA commitments.
_____ Placements
One or more 1
Runaways or times kicked out of home: Include times the youth
did not voluntarily return within 24 hours. Include incidents not
reported by or to law enforcement. Enter up to a maximum of 5.
_____ Runaways
_____ Kicked out
One
Two or more
1
2
Problems of family members who are currently living in the
household: Check all that apply. Mother and father refer to current
parent or legal guardian.
Mother Father Sibling(s)
No problems ¨ ¨ ¨
Alcohol ¨ ¨ ¨
Drug ¨ ¨ ¨
Mental health ¨ ¨ ¨
Physical health ¨ ¨ ¨
Employment ¨ ¨ ¨
Financial ¨ ¨ ¨
Jail/imprisonment ¨ ¨ ¨
Sibling(s),mother or father jail/imprisonment 1
Current parental rule enforcement and control:. ¨ Youth usually obeys and follows rules
¨ Sometimes obeys or obeys some rules
¨ Consistently disobeys, and/or is hostile
0
1
2
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Assess whether alcohol or drug use disrupts the youth’s life. Disrupted functioning involves problems in: education, family conflict,
peer relationships, or health consequences. Disrupted functioning usually indicates that treatment is warranted. Indicate whether
alcohol and/or drug use often contributes to criminal behavior; their use typically precipitates committing a crime, there is evidence
or reason to believe the youth’s criminal activity is related to alcohol and/or drug use.
Alcohol use: ¨ None ¨ Use ¨ Use disrupts function
Drug use: ¨ None ¨ Use ¨ Use disrupts function
Alcohol use contributes to criminal behavior: ¨ No ¨ Somewhat ¨ Yes
Drug use contributes to criminal behavior: ¨ No ¨ Somewhat ¨ Yes
Disrupted function or contributes to crime 2
For abuse and neglect, include any history that is suspected, whether or not substantiated; exclude reports of abuse or neglect
proven to be false.
Victim of physical or sexual abuse: Parents include
biological parents, stepparents, adopted parents and legal
guardian or caretaker. Check all that apply.
Other Outside
Abused by: Parent Sibling Family Family
None ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨
Physical abuse ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨
Sexual abuse ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨
Victim of physical or sexual abuse: 1
Victim of neglect: ¨ No ¨ Yes
Victim of neglect: Yes: 2
Mental health problems: Such as schizophrenia, bi-polar,
mood, thought, personality and adjustment disorders. Exclude
substance abuse and special education since those issues are
considered elsewhere. Confirm by a professional in the social
service/healthcare field. Check all that apply.
¨ None
¨ Diagnosed with mental health problem(s)
¨ Medication prescribed
¨ Treatment
Mental health problems: Yes: 1
Social History Score: (Maximum of 18 points) ___
Pre-Screen Attitude/Behavior Indicators
Violence/anger: Reports of displaying a weapon, fighting,
threats, violent outbursts, violent temper, fire starting, animal
cruelty, destructiveness, volatility, intense reactions.
¨ No reports ¨ Reports
Sexual aggression: Reports of aggressive sex, sex for power,
young sex partners, voyeurism, exposure, etc.
¨ No reports ¨ Reports
Accepts responsibility for anti-social behavior: ¨ Accepts responsibility
¨ Minimizes, denies, justifies, excuses, or blames others
¨ Accepts anti-social behavior as okay
¨ Proud of anti-social behavior
Pro-social values/conventions:
¨ Primarily positive attitude towards
¨ Somewhat positive attitude, positive attitude toward some
¨ Does not think they apply to him or her
¨ Resents or is hostile to pro-social values/conventions
Belief in use of aggression to resolve a disagreement or
conflict:
Verbal: yelling and verbal intimidation
Physical: fighting and physical intimidation
Believes use of aggression is: Verbal Physical
Rarely appropriate ¨ ¨
Sometimes appropriate ¨ ¨
Often appropriate ¨ ¨
Risk Level Definitions Using Criminal History and Social History Risk Scores
Criminal History Score Social History Risk Score
0 to 5 6 to 9 10 to 18
0 to 2 Low Low Moderate
3 to 4 Low Moderate High
5 to 7 Low Moderate High
8 to 31 Moderate High High
Risk Level: _________
Troubledteen faces murder charge in death of boyfriend
By Missy Stoddard
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-
ppullman19mar19,0,1514626.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
March 19, 2006
In Room 113 of the Lago-Mar Motel, 16-year-old Barbara Pullman kneeled over the lifeless, blood-
drenched body of her boyfriend, David Corbitt, 34. It was just after midnight on Dec. 3 and she
started talking as soon as she saw the Lake Worth police officers.
“I stabbed him,” she repeatedly told the officers. “He wanted to leave me. He said he can get [sex]
from anyone and that he was going to leave me. I didn’t want him to leave.”
Pullman’s life experiences belie her age. Raised in poverty and dysfunction, she became a mother at
13, about the same time she left home. Her troubled past has led to a stark scenario: life in adult
prison if convicted of first-degree murder.
Her teenage volatility surfaced during a bond hearing last week. One moment she wiped away tears,
the next she flipped her middle finger at a photographer.
After the killing, it took a detective 16 minutes to review Miranda rights with a befuddled Pullman, a
videotape shows. She didn’t grasp terms such as “attorney,” “represent” and “statement.”
Public defender Elizabeth Ramsey hammered the detective in court about her client’s “extreme
intellectual handicap” as well as the power imbalance of a teenager in a sexual relationship with an
abusive alcoholic more than twice her age. All of that makes Pullman a less-than-reliable witness,
she argued.
But Prosecutor Terri Skiles convinced the judge the teen is a flight risk. She skipped court on an
aggravated-battery charge for stabbing her older brother with a barbecue fork in 2004.
The judge denied bond and Pullman cried as corrections officers led her from the courtroom.
Troubled early years
Frances Howell met David Pullman while buying Pall Mall cigarettes for her parents at the West
Palm Beach Hess station where Pullman worked. Howell can’t remember the year, but court records
show they married in 1992. Their daughter, Barbara Pullman, was 3. A son was born a couple years
later. Howell’s parents were raising another son of hers from a prior relationship.
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The couple divorced after less than two years, court records show, but Howell says they lived
together for years afterward. In eight years, the Sheriff’s Office handled a half-dozen domestic calls
at their home.
Money was scarce and the family moved often, Howell said, uprooting Pullman from school after
school.
“We were almost like gypsies,” she recalled.
Pullman, like her mom, struggled academically. Howell quit school in the ninth grade. Her daughter
wouldn’t even make it that far.
By her pre-teen years, Pullman smoked cigarettes — Marlboros and Newports — with her mother’s
permission. At 12, she began having sex with Troy Pedersen, a learning-disabled 22-year-old she
met at The Rocky Horror Picture Show, according to records. When they broke up in April 2002,
according to a sheriff’s report, 12-year-old Pullman was pregnant with Pedersen’s child.
“Barbara’s daddy would always say, `If she’s happy, leave her alone,'” said Pullman’s maternal
grandmother, Frances Jones, of South Carolina.
Pedersen was charged with lewd and lascivious conduct. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and
got probation.
Though Pullman’s family wasn’t happy about the pregnancy, they encouraged her to have the baby.
“I told her you don’t get no abortion,” Jones recalled.
Pullman stopped going to middle school, though her mother isn’t sure what school she attended or
what grade she was in. A custody battle began shortly after Letticia Pullman was born on Oct. 10,
2002. The baby lived with Pullman and her mother for several months, court records show, with
Pedersen paying $44 a week in court-ordered child support. His parents regularly paid Howell’s
utility bill and provided money for diapers and other necessities, according to court records.
Howell describes her daughter as an “excellent mother.”
“She got up at night and nursed the baby,” she said.
Around the 10-month mark, Pedersen, who lived with his parents, sought custody, alleging that
Pullman was smoking marijuana and that drugs were being used in Howell’s house.
In September 2004, Pullman left Letticia with Pedersen, saying the baby would be better off, court
records show. Two months later, Pedersen won sole custody. A judge based the decision on
Pullman’s “irresponsible behavior � and history of abdicating parental responsibility.”
Family splits, reunites
In the aftermath of Hurricane Frances, Howell and her new husband, Jack Howell, moved to South
Carolina. Pullman, now 15, balked.
“She said, `Mama, go ahead,'” Howell recalled, adding that Pullman stayed in West Palm Beach with
friends Howell didn’t know.
Eventually, Pullman moved into her mother’s Walterboro, S.C., trailer. There, Howell said, her
daughter met her neighbor Corbitt. The blonde, hazel-eyed Corbitt drank and cussed too much and
was violent, Howell said. But her daughter loved him. Corbitt’s lengthy rap sheet includes convictions
for DUI, domestic violence and public drunkenness.
When they all returned to South Florida last fall, Howell let Corbitt live with them so long as he paid
$200 a month. An adoring Pullman tended to Corbitt’s every need.
But when Corbitt got drunk, which Howell said was often, he turned ugly and became verbally
abusive, she said. Despite Howell urging her daughter to end things, Pullman refused. By October,
Pullman and Corbitt were living in motel rooms rented by the week.
A violent end
Pullman waited two hours for Corbitt to return with her Pepsi the night of Dec. 2, she told detectives.
Finally arriving after midnight, his breath revealed two things: He had been drinking and he smelled
like another woman. Pullman threw the first blow, she told police, and Corbitt retaliated by choking,
punching and splitting her lip. He threatened to leave her. During a break in the melee, Pullman said,
Corbitt lay on the sofa and rested his arm over his eyes. She told police she grabbed a kitchen knife
and plunged it deep in his chest, piercing his heart and lung. The knife entered Corbitt at least seven
more times, according to the autopsy.
Contemplating suicide, Pullman went to the kitchen sink and rinsed the knife before putting it to her
own throat.
“I didn’t ever want to leave his side,” she cried. As blood heaved from Corbitt’s chest, Pullman
grabbed a washcloth in a frenzied effort to stop it. Realizing her efforts were fruitless, Pullman dialed
911 and waited for authorities. She rested her ear on his chest and prayed.
“And then … you guys came,” she told police.
Missy Stoddard can be reached at mstoddard@sun-sentinel.com or 561-228-5505.Copyright ©
2006, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Gun violence school shootings C and J news 04012013
New Study Demonstrates Link Between Video Games and Juvenile Violence
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Iowa State University
says that new research evidence demonstrates a link between video games and youth violence and delinquency. Sociology Prof. Matt DeLisi said the research shows a strong connection even when controlling for a history of violence and psychopathic traits among juvenile offenders. “When critics say, ‘Well, it’s probably not video games, it’s probably how antisocial they are,’ we can address that directly because we controlled for a lot of things that we know matter,” DeLisi said. “Even if you account for the child’s sex, age, race, the age they were first referred to juvenile court [ ] and a bunch of other media effects, like screen time and exposure. Even with all of that, the video game measure still mattered.” The study in the April issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice examined the level of video game exposure for 227 juvenile offenders in Pennsylvania. The average offender had committed nearly nine serious acts of violence in a year.
The results show that both the frequency of play and affinity for violent games were strongly associated with delinquent and violent behavior. Psychology Prof. Craig Anderson said violent video game exposure is not the sole cause of violence, but it is a risk factor. “Can we say from this study that Adam Lanza, or any of the others, went off and killed people because of media violence? You can’t take the stand of the NRA that it’s strictly video games and not guns,” he said. “You also can’t take the stand of the entertainment industry that it has nothing to do with media violence that it’s all about guns and not about media violence. They’re both wrong and they’re both right, both are causal risk factors.”
Iowa State University
The Huffington Post has compiled and mapped news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the Newtown school shooting, says
Poynter.org
. For 98 days, a team of researchers scanned news reports from around the U.S. and added them to a spreadsheet to be sorted by date, city, and state. In the three months after Newtown, there have been 2,244 people killed by guns.
Poynter calls the interactive map, “Mapping the Dead, Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook,” “a breathtaking display of where 2,244 people died in America. You can see the names of each one of the victims, and the map links every data point to a news story about the incident.” “To us, the most shocking thing is the magnitude of it,” Huffington Post Data Editor Andrei Scheinkman said. “You can see how many reported deaths there were and how it affects every corner of the country.” Given that the map features only deaths that the news media have reported on, there’s no question that the map under-reports the number of people who died in the 98 days the team collected the data. Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths is trying a different method. They are crowdsourcing gun deaths and have collected details of more than 3,000 gun deaths since the Newtown shooting.
Poynter.org
Adam Lanza’s Home Had Arsenal of Guns, Ammo, Swords, Knives
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Newtown shooter Adam Lanza’s home contained an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, Samurai swords, a bayonet and knives, say newly released search warrant results reported by the
Hartford Courant
. The warrants show police found the items after searching Lanza’s home and car after the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting where he killed 20 first graders and six adults. One witness told police that the school was Lanza’s “life.” Police found a copy of his report card from Sandy Hook in the house.
Families of the victims were briefed Wednesday about what details were going to be released in the search warrants. “It was obvious his intention was to do a lot of damage and he was certainly capable of doing that [ ] considering the amount of ammunition he had,” said Mark Barden, father of slain first-grader Daniel Barden. Of Adam Lanza’s mother, Nancy, he said, “as a parent, I would think that she probably could have made different choices with how she came to spend her time with her son. Fishing comes to mind.”
Hartford Courant
Use an external link to the risk assessment instrument used in Washington State or the pdf document in week 5 folder. What is your opinion of this instrument? Are all of these factors valid or could they be considered discriminatory? Read other articles you find online involving crimes with juveniles involved. Determine how this risk assessment instrument would be used in those cases. Could/should these issues have been handled in a similar manner? Should the instrument be used in all cases – should there be discretion? Could there be problems? How should similar issues be handled?
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