Juvenile Culpability Assessment

The Juvenile Culpability Assessment is a 16-item scoring assessment assisting professionals making legal, protective, and therapeutic decisions about children who sexually act out. The most valuable purpose of the assessment is to offer suggestions to those in the powerful position making legal, custodial, or punitive decisions about children regarding consequences such as sex offender registration and notification that could last a lifetime.

The Juvenile Culpability Assessment provides a scoring mechanism that places children in four different TRACs of varying levels of culpability, criminal intent, and needed intervention. The four TRACs of the Juvenile Culpability Assessment determine which children are truly criminal, which children need a simple court intervention, and which children just need a healthy sex education effort from parents or therapists. The Juvenile Culpability Assessment rejects the idea of one size fits all for sexually acting children and, in consideration of their precarious future, provides a much better method of responding.

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