Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.

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Novice Policy Textbook

• Introduction 
• The basic structure of policy debate
• Debating Disadvantages
• Debating Counterplans
• Debating Kritiks
• Debating Topicality
• Prep Time Management
• The First Affirmative Constructive (1AC) 
• The First Negative Constructive (1NC)
• The Second Affirmative Constructive (2AC)
• The Second Negative Constructive (2NC) and the First Negative Rebuttal (1NC) — The Negative Block
• The 1AR
• The 2NR
• The 2AR
• Cross-examination
• Flowing
• Policy Debate Terminology

Intermediate Policy Text

Disadvantages

Straight-turning Disadvantages
Using Disadvantages to Win the Debate 
Kicking Disadvantages 

Counterplans

Types of Counterplans
Counterplan Theory

Kritiks

Debating Kritiks in the 1AR
Performance Kritiks
Kritiks as Affirmative Arguments

Topicality

Other forms of topicality

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