Judge: Dan Schatz (Unaffiliated)
Resolution: This house believes that prisons should be abolished
 Jacqueline Haugen |
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 Lainey Anderson |
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Posted at April 14, 2015 11:29:06AM EST by Joe Leeson-Schatz
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Posted at April 14, 2015 11:32:56PM EST by Lainey Anderson
"Prison Abolition & Alternatives." Prison Abolition & Alternatives. PrisonJustice.CA, 2008. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. <http://www.vcn.bc.ca/august10/politics/abolition_alternatives.html>.
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Posted at April 15, 2015 10:01:48PM EST by Jacqueline Haugen
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Posted at April 17, 2015 01:41:13AM EST by Lainey Anderson
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Posted at April 18, 2015 12:29:19AM EST by Jacqueline Haugen
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Submitted at April 19, 2015 12:03:53PM EST by Dan Schatz
| Category | Jacqueline Haugen | Lainey Anderson |
|---|---|---|
| Use of evidence: | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| Delivery skill: | 5.5 | 5 |
| Coherence of arguments: | 5.8 | 5 |
| Responsiveness to opponent: | 5.5 | 4.6 |
| Identification of key points: | 5.5 | 4.4 |
| Comments: | You did a great job responding to the oppositions arguments. Specifically not allowing her to determine the rules of the debate and accepting her definitions which could have been damning. I think you did a good job applying previous arguments (such as economics) to not only contend her points but extend your own argument. In the future if you want to add an additional argument such as abuse by time you need to impact it which you started to do by saying how it is unfair given you have the shortest talk after. How does this hurt your education? Extend this further if you are actually going to go for it. Although in this debate just mentioning it help spread your opponent a little more. | I think you did a great job bringing in a viable alternative and painted a picture of what reform would look like better than I have seen in other debates. I did buy the fact that this reform would be incredibly expensive and in the end I don't have a reason why this is better than the proposition especially when you conceited her definition of prison, i.e. she still has psychiatric asylums to help treat the most severe offenders. Maybe you could have brought in information about how psychiatric asylums do not work or are already at whits ends, or unable to address such severe underlying illnesses. |
The decision is for the Proposition: Jacqueline Haugen
Reason for Decision:
This was the best debate I have heard so far. In the end both sides say change needs to happen. I think the key point was that psychiatric asylums will still exist for the most serious offenders and that can work. Further the economic costs of prisons is huge and the reform would be quite expensive as well. The harm of dangers to civilians was not fleshed out completely and so the harms associated with prison abolishment were minimal within this debate
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