’26-’27 LD RESOLUTION HANDBOOK
If you’re looking for something that’s in between “read Plato’s Republic and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason” and “just use AI to do your research,” this is the resource for you. Consider this a high-school-friendly primer on philosophy and its interactions with the criminal justice system. Here’s what’s included:
- Over 120 pages
- 30 definitions
- 109 quotes and applications from studies, philosophers, and academic papers
- 32 values
- Over 36,000 words
Price: $40 for an individual.
Club discounts: $35 each for 10-15 purchases, $30 for 16-20 purchases, $25 for 21+ purchases.
INDIVIDUAL LD CASES
| # | Case Name | Author | Philosophy | Stats | Stories | Uniqueness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | N: Restorative Justice | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ |
| 002 | A: Merit-Based Justice | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ |
| 003 | A: Truth | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ |
| 004 | A: Treating Criminals like Humans | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ |
| 005 | N: Preservation of Life | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ |
| 006 | N: Offender-Based Punishment | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ |
| 007 | A: Preventing Over-Punishment | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ |
| 008 | A: Indeterminate Sentencing | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ |
| 009 | N: False Premise | Tong | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 |
| 010 | A: Societal Safety | Tong | 🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ | 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️ |
| 011 | N: Real Life Philosophies | Tong | DRAFT | DRAFT | DRAFT | DRAFT |
| 012 | N: Bad Company Corrupts | Tong | DRAFT | DRAFT | DRAFT | DRAFT |
Price: $7 per case. $45 for year-round subscription (guaranteed 20 cases).
Make sure to frequently check this list for updates.
When purchasing cases, please use the numbers corresponding to each case (# code) to indicate to the team which ones you would like to purchase. For example, if you’d like to purchase “Truth (A),” simply write “003” in the PayPal field when purchasing.
Summaries:
001 – Rehabilitation restores victims better than retribution by providing accountability.
002 – Punishment should be based on proportional merit and desert, which retribution best satisfies.
003 – Retribution, which claims that just punishment is intrinsically good, is true. Rehabilitation, which denies that punishment is intrinsically good, is false.
004 – Rehabilitation treats criminals like infants and diseased persons, rather than as humans with free will made in God’s image.
005 – Rehabilitation preserves life by reducing crime and recidivism.
006 – Rehabilitation, which punishes based on the offender, rather than the crime, is a more just punishment.
007 – Retribution is the only philosophy that prevents judges from giving an unfairly harsh sentence.
008 – Rehabilitation’s indeterminate sentencing leads to inconsistent punishments, which violate justice.
009 – Retribution cannot prove its premise—that punishment is necessary outside of any societal benefit—because punishment is itself a societal construct, not intrinsically valuable.
010 – Rehabilitation fails to produce consistent results in lowering recidivism, which hurts societal well-being.
011 – Retribution is good in theory, but ends up doing injustice in reality. Rehabilitation is a better tool in reality to both promoting justice and protecting society.
012 – Retribution just teaches criminals to be more dangerous and create more networks, which damages society’s interest in using prison to preventing crime.