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Type: Criminal Justice ×

This House Would retroactively convict those who committed acts which are now illegal and pardon those who were convicted of crimes that are no longer illegal.
Cambodian Debate League Open · Round 1 · 2024-07-27
This House Would allow prisoners to convert their sentences of prison time as a result of conviction of petty crimes into sentences of physical punishment (e.g. caning).
Cambodian Debate League Open · Round 1 · 2024-07-27
Assuming feasibility, This house would opt for the System.
Infoslide

The Sibyl System is a nationalized technological system used to calculate an individual’s tendencies to commit crimes. The System’s primary purpose is to maintain law and order. The System scans a person's thoughts and emotions to determine their propensity to commit crimes. This is quantified in the form of a crime coefficient – the higher the coefficient, the more likely the person will commit a crime, and vice versa. Law enforcement is only able to arrest you and trigger weapons when the System reads that the individual's crime coefficient reading is over the threshold limit. Every citizen in the country is compulsorily injected with the system upon birth.

Intertext Pro Ams 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-07-27
This House Prefers A World where Truth and Reconciliation Commissions were established to deal with the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars rather than the ICTY.
Serbia World Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-07-22
This House would allow violent offenders to opt into Pavlovian conditioning as a substitution for prison time.
Infoslide

For the purposes of this debate, Pavlovian conditioning will cause a patient to experience severe nausea when committing or even thinking about violence. The effects of this conditioning are irreversible.

Serbia World Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-07-22
This house opposes the 'Harvey Weinstein Bill'
Infoslide

The 'Harvey Weinstein Bill' is a proporsal to allow for evidence of previous sexual offenses to be heard in sexual offenses as evidence to prove 'a tendency to commit sexual offenses', even if those prior allegations are not directly part of the underlying criminal charges. The bill recently passed the New York State Senate on a 55-4 vote.

Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-16
This house believes that South Korea should not allow presidents to veto special investigation laws
- Democracy
- Asia
- Criminal Justice
- Law
Infoslide

Special investigation laws in South Korea are legal provisions that allow for the appointment of a special counsel or independent investigator to conduct inquiries into specific incidents or allegations of misconduct, particularly involving high-ranking officials or cases of significant public interest.

Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-07-16
Given the technology, this house would erase society's memory and evidence of the criminal past of former convicts after their release from prison.
Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-16
This house supports 'crime-tracker' influencers
- Media
- Criminal Justice
- Police
- Privacy
- Law
Infoslide

Crime tracker influencers are individuals who monitor and do real-time reporting of criminal activities through social media. These individuals aggregate data from various sources, including law enforcement databases, community reports, radio traffic from first responders of crimes, as well as occasionally going to crime scenes to report.

Chungang University Debate Society Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-16
This house supports eco-vandalism as a form of protest.
Infoslide

Eco-vandalism is a form of destructive activism that aims to raise awareness about the climate crisis by targetting famous works of art. Examples include, tomato soup thrown at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” by activists of the Just Stop Oil movement and pumpkin soup being splattered on da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" by activists of the group Riposte Alimentaire. In these two examples, the works of art were not damaged.

Hart House Summer Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-07-13
In areas with high crime rates, This house supports the creation of local vigilante groups (e.g. Bakassi Boys in Nigeria)
Asia Novice Debate Open 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-07-12
This house supports the rise of true crime entertainment
Infoslide

True crime is a nonfiction genre that combines investigative journalism and narrative storytelling to report on and describe a real-life crime event to the public. Examples include 'Serial', a podcast that investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee as well as the investigations and legal proceedings that followed.

Asia Novice Debate Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-07-12
This house prefers a world without a belief in free will
Prague Debate Spring 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-07-11
This house supports Vigilantism in high crime areas
Infoslide

_Vigilantism refers to the practice of individuals or groups taking justice into their own hands without legal authority, often because they think official law enforcement is ineffective or corrupt._

Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-07-07
Assuming feasibility, This house would erase all the memories of criminals and replace them with a fabricated set of memories, instead of sending them to prison
Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-07-07
This house would ban prison labour
Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-07-06
This house supports total pacifism
Infoslide

Total pacifism is the belief that war and violence are unjustifiable and that (in all areas of life) disputes should be settled by peaceful means

Split Open 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-07-06
This house believes that that professional sporting leagues should permanently ban players with past convictions of heinous crimes (i.e. domestic abuse, rape, aggravated assault, etc.)
Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-07-06
This house supports the decriminalization of libel
Infoslide

A libel is a malicious defamation tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead or to impeach the honesty, virtue, or reputation of those alive.

Bicol Intervarsity 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-07-06
This chamber, like an Eagle, would expose a friend.
Infoslide

An Eagle is a long-time member of the Southside Serpents gang. His close friend is Falcon, who was previously expelled from the gang. Eagle and Falcon were detained by the police and charged with robbing a cider factory. The police, lacking sufficient evidence to press charges, separate the prisoners and present each of them with the same offer: if one testifies against the other while the other remains silent, the one who testifies will be set free, and the one who remains silent will receive a fifteen-year sentence. If both remain silent, they will each serve 5 years for other offenses. If both testify, they will each receive ten-year sentences. Each of them must make a decision independently, and neither will know whether the other remains silent or testifies until the verdict is pronounced. The policeman's promise will be carried out, and you are aware of this.

Szkoła Debatuje: Zakład 24' · Grand Final · 2024-07-05