User:Ddmiller12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Recidivism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I picked this article because I’m interested in recidivism and the article breaks down recidivism in the United States. This article have multiple subcategories but somewhat broad, it should present more details. The importance of this article is when it comes to the criminal justice system their focus should be more on rehabilitation, most ex-cons are expected to reoffend within their first year of being released.

Evaluate the article
The lead section started off with the definition of recidivism and also it’s noted this article is based of the United States statistics. The lead section didn’t really state a concise overview just more of a definition of recidivism. I did notice the introduction express about Norway criminal justice system. The content disclose the time frame of the information are from 1900’s through 2011. In addition to the time frame there are a few citations missing as well. As far as the tone it would be considered as neutral, it list most statistics and factors leading up to being rearrested. The sources are a mixture of news websites and journals. I clicked on some of the resources they were available to view. The format and writing content were professional and well written as a whole. There were only one graph and two pictures presented. The Talk section listed how to improve the writing as far as the sources that were cited and the lack of peer review sources.