Minh A. Luong & Company Tutorial PlanetDebate.com 1 January-February 2011 National Forensic League Lincoln Douglas topic Resolved: inthe United Stats, jeniles charged with violent flomes ought 10 be treated as ads in the criminal justice system. PlanetDebete.com / Lincoln-Douglas.com Minh A. Luong & Company Tutorial: January-February 2011 National Forensic League Liner in-Douglas topic Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system. Dr. Minh A. Luong Author/Editor International Security Studies Department of Political Science and ‘and The Brady-Johnson Center tn Grand Strategy Taubman Center for Public Policy and and America Institutions Ly Scholars Program and Yale University Watson Institute for International Affars New Haven, Connecticut USA Brown University minha luong@yele edi> Providence, Rhode Island NB. The views expressed in this essay and other open-source work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Yale Unwversity, Brown University, or the US Government (with which the author maintarns an advisory relationship) © 2010-11 Minh A. Luong and Harvard Debate, Inc., All Rights ReservedMinh A. Luong & Company Tutorial PlanetDebate.com 2 January-February 2011 National Forensic League Lincoln Douglas topic Resolved: inthe United Stats, jeniles charged with violent flomes ought 10 be treated as ads in the criminal justice system. Selected Quotations Nobody carn tell me from some ivory tower that you can take a iid. kick him i the rear end and it doesn't do any good’ Tdont give a damn what they say, we're gotng to continue to do [juventle boot camps] in Georgia’ - Govemor Zell Miller of Georgia About six percent of juventie crime ts violent - American Bar Association, (http:/wwwabanet org/media/jjga htm!) Thave come across some young people who are so sophisticated and who have committed such heinous crimes that the adult system is the place jor them to be - Judge LaDoris Cordell Former Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County (CA) Ifwe could take every kid and surround the kad with fil-time staff of psychologists and child advocates and drug and alcohol counselors, then perhaps no itd should be in adult cout But the fact is, there are only a itmited number of resources 1 the juventle justice system and they can only perform a limited munber of fnctions. ~Kurt Kumi Supervising Deputy District Attomey, Juvenile Division, Santa Clara County (CA) District Attomey's Office Juventles may not be sentenced to iif tn prison without parole jor any crime short of homicide, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, expanding its command that young offenders must be treated differently from adults even jor heinous crimes. - Robert Bames, Washington Post, May 18, 2010 Giving a 10-year mandatory mintraun for a second offense fist ight ts not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any ofthe programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. - Bobby Scott We are seeing more juwenties involved tn more violent crimes, .. Ithinic that's a trend natiomeide - Greg Thompson Immature brain development is not an excuse for juventie criminal activity, .. (But) it ts an explanation which mitigates their culpability. It explains wiv’ they should be held accountable and in some cases punished severely, but never as severely as an adult who comnits the same crime - Steven Drizin So many kids end up tn the juwentie justice systern before they ve been able to get help. They end up getting it (help) through the juwentle justice system, and that's wrong A itd shouldn't have to commit a crime to get the help they need -Lori ReynoldsMinh A. Luong & Company Tutorial PlanetDebate.com 3 January-February 2011 National Forensic League Lincoln Douglas topic Resolved: nthe United Stats, juveniles charged with violene felonies ought to be treated az adhlts the crmmanal justice system. In This Topic Briefing... Cover page 1 Selected quotations 2 In This Topic Briefing (aka the Table of Contents) 3 A Note from the Editor 45 Topic in Context and Topic Briefing 6 Affirmative Strategy Notes 15 Negative Strategy Notes a Definitional Concepts and Definitions 28 Strategies and Arguments Affirmative 31 Negative 33 Sources a7 Selected Evidence on the Topic 4181 About the Author/Editor 82