User:Gatorres25/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mental health among female offenders in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this articles because I am interested in women's mental health. Female's who have/are incarcerated have most likely experienced early victimization which has not stopped. They are not getting the help they deserve which puts that at risk to be victimized again and end up back in prison.

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.)

The lead section discusses more about the mental health of men and women. The main articles discusses the before, during and after of incarceration which the lead section does not discuss. Overall, the content is relevant to the topic it just needs to be updated. It also needs more information since the sections seem to be lacking content. The tone of the article is neutral and it is relaying what research has found. None of the references have links which needs to be fixed. The references are not current which suggests there are better sources out there to use on the article. Overall the organization and writing quality is good. The section purposes flow nicely and cover what the section is supposed to be. The structure of the article is great but it is missing current, relevant sources and is lacking information. There are no images within the article. The use of graphs and/or charts may help readers visual the statistics within the article leading to a better understanding of their importance. There are no discussions on the article currently and is rated as start-class, low importance. The structure of the article is good but underdeveloped in terms of content. My biggest issue with the article is its lack of current information. The Early Experiences of Victimization section includes the sentence "...as defined by DSM-III-R criteria." Using the DSM criteria is great but the DSM is now on its fifth edition not third. New and current information needs to be integrated into the article.