User:Benjamin.aviles1/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1
Article title- Violent Crime

The rating of this article is Start-Class.

The reason I chose this article as a potential article to improve on is because there is one equity gap that it does not address. A valuable piece of information that could be added is information about which gender is being targeted more for each type of violent crime. For example, are women or men more likely to be victims of violent assault? In addition to finding this out, I would provide Statistics to further validate the information for readers. Also, making connections among each country would help readers further understand violent crime. I believe it would be informative to show how some types of violent crime occur at a higher rate. When the article brings up different survey bases and Statistics, I believe it would be a valuable contribution to add a link/citation to the survey and stats directly after the sentence. This could help readers have a visualization of the numbers in front of them rather than just hearing about it.

Citation:

Thornton, Abigail J.V., Graham-Kevan, Nicola & Archer, John. (2016). Intimate Partner Violence: Are the Risk Factors similar for men and women, and similar to other types of offending? Aggressive Behavior, Volume 42 (Issue 4), Pages 404-412. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26678658/  I chose this source because it relates to violent crime and gender, which is one pieces of the original article I would be filling in. Intimate Partner Violence is higher in women while general violent acts are more common for men to commit. The different types of assaults in the original article (physical, threaten, sexual) all relate to Intimate Partner Violence so this a good source to cite if I were to choose this article to improve on.

Option 2
Article Title- Riot

The rating of this article is Start-Class.

One part of this article I would edit is the Riot Control and Laws Section. I feel as if part of this section has an emotional writing tied to it. For example the author writes "The policing of riots has been marred by incidents in which police have been accused of provoking rioting or crowd violence." I believe that you could make the argument that this is opinion based. How would you know if they are provoking this? I see this information as controversial, therefore I would just leave it out altogether. If I were to edit this piece, I would cite events that took place that showed clear evidence of police provoking these riots. After making a claim like this, links to specific events would be helpful for readers but I think it is best to not even go down that route. Two sections that could potentially be added are the difference between a peaceful protest and riot (hot topic). If I were to add this, I would make sure to provide strict definitions of each to inform readers on the difference along with not leaving any biases. Another section that could be added is famous examples of people rioting throughout history. This would give readers a better understanding of what exactly a riot is and the implications of such an event. This could be added to the "Classification" Section of the article. For example, under each classification of a riot (food, police, prison etc) specific examples could be provided.

Citation:

Adang, Otto M. J. & Van Ham, Tom. (2015). Contextual and Individual Factors Determining Escalation of Collective Violence: Case Study of the Project X Riot In Haren, The Netherlands. British Journal of Criminology, Volume 55 (Issue 6), Pages 1226-1244. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/55/6/1226/445159?redirectedFrom=fulltext I chose this article because it is a case study that explains the individual behaviors of people and how this relates to rioting. By using this source, readers could be informed on why people decide to riot and engage in this extreme behavior. Theories are also mentioned including the social- contextual theory which is a theory that basically proposes that environmental issues could be the reason for rioting including poor role models and lack of education. By applying theory to the original article, this provides formal information instead of just guessing or providing non-academic sources as to why people engage in riots.

Option 3

 * Article title- Imprisonment
 * Rating of Article- Stub-Class
 * Article Evaluation- The content of this article is relevant to the topic, but there is a lot more work to be done. One major addition that could be added is in regard to equity gaps. The article briefly mentions gender and ethnicity are lopsided in incarceration rates, but I believe this deserves a whole separate section rather than being the last two sentences of the introduction/ lead section. The reason being is because there is so much to talk about on this topic alone including imprisonment rates and racial disparities. This article is strictly informative and the author leaves his emotions out of the equation when doing the writing. The references seem formal and not just from any random website. Lastly, I would suggest a title change such as "Imprisonment Around the World" because the article talks about different countries. There are also many other factors that come into play when talking about Imprisonment rather than just history. One way to make the content more relevant to the present day is to talk about the different types of punishment that occur nowadays. Instead of focusing solely on history, one possible avenue that could be taken is to connect the past ways of punishment in each country to the present ways of punishment. Also, the death penalty is not mentioned in the United States section which is a hot topic and would certainly grasp the readers attention. This is a big part of imprisonment that deserves to be mentioned. However, because it is controversial, I would make sure to keep this section strictly informative and keep my opinion out of the writing.
 * Citation:
 * Spohn, Cassia. (2015). Race, Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Crime & Justice, Volume 44 (Issue 1), Pages 49-97. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/681550 I chose this source because it fits every hole I previously talked about. This source talks about racial disparities, including disparities in regard to the death penalty. Studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between imprisonment rates and race. This source ultimately addresses the equity gaps, relates to present day (20-21st Century), and racial disparities in the death penalty sentencing.
 * Spohn, Cassia. (2015). Race, Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Crime & Justice, Volume 44 (Issue 1), Pages 49-97. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/681550 I chose this source because it fits every hole I previously talked about. This source talks about racial disparities, including disparities in regard to the death penalty. Studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between imprisonment rates and race. This source ultimately addresses the equity gaps, relates to present day (20-21st Century), and racial disparities in the death penalty sentencing.