Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adult

I negate the resolution Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system. Definition: Juvenile: According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, A juvenile is a person who has committed an act of delinquency, but has not attained his/her 21st birthday and is sentenced under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Treated as an adult: Juvenile courts usually hear cases involving persons between the ages of ten and eighteen. (The upper age may be lower in some states.) If the prosecution charges an older juvenile with a particularly serious or violent offense, the district or prosecuting attorney may request that an adult court try the juvenile as an adult. In some states, juveniles fourteen or older and charged with serious acts like murder, rape or armed robbery are handled in adult courts unless the judge transfers them to juvenile court. Justice: a scheme or system of law in which every person receives his/her/its due from the system, including all rights, both natural and legal Violent Felony: In U.S. sentencing guidelines, felonies range from Class E (1-5 year sentence) to Class A (life imprisonment or the death penalty). Examples of violent felonies include murder, kidnapping, arson, crimes against children, armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape, firearm use in certain cases, or firearm possession in certain cases. My Value today is My Value for today’s debate is justice The resolution is asking us to evaluate an action performed by an individual that inherently links to the removal of rights. As such, the only real value pertinent to the core issue of this debate is the value of justice. All other values miss the core issue the resolution is stating and can be outweighed cleanly by justice. My Value Criterion is Protection of human rights. We must protect human rights as juveniles. Observation 1: Since acquitted juvenile defendants are no longer charged with violent felonies, and since we cannot presume the guilt of juveniles that are merely charged with violent felonies, the timeframe of the resolution extends only from charging to conviction. Potential punishment is excluded from the discussion. Observation 2: Since the burden of the Aff is to prove the resolution true as a general principle, the Aff need not argue that juveniles charged with violent felonies be treated as adults in every single case, or in every single way. Rather, the Aff must show that juveniles charged with violent felonies be treated as adults in the majority (or preponderance) of cases, and in the majority of ways. Contention 1: Juvenile mind not developed yet and could be harming futute. Sub Point A; Juvenile mind not developed yet and could be harming future. A National Institutes of Health study proposes that the part of the brain that restrains risky behavior, including reckless driving, and thinking skills is not fully developed until the age of 25.   Jay Giedd, the psychiatrist leading the study, told MSNBC earlier this year that this finding came as a surprise to him because he used to think that the brain was fully developed by the age of 18.   The continuous study uses magnetic resonance imaging to scan 2,000 people’s brains every two years. It has been found that teenage brains have extra synapses in the areas where decision making and risk assessment take place. Most of these synapses are useless and even get in the way of one’s judgment. Eventually, as teenagers become adults the synapses disappear, but the findings imply that many life choices are made before the brain’s decision making center is fully developed. Also,