User:Bendetwiler/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?

(Provide a link to the article here.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Race_and_crime

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?

(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it closely relates to my major. In class recently, we started to learn about hate crimes and how race and ethnicity can influence the cause of crime and in some cases explain why the crime was committed. My first impression of the article was that it was very vague. The articles lead very briefly stated that crime and race were correlated. Then, in the content part of the article, the author went straight into discrimination of minorities in the criminal justice system in both Europe and the United States. The author did not include much information on the topics and just kept stating “according the research,” but had no information the back some of the statements up.

Evaluate the article

(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)