User:Jerahr/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ban the Box - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I was supposed to peer review it. I reviewed the first paragraph because I thought that it was written by my peer-reviewee. However, I am also interested in the subject and support its claim.

Evaluate the article
First off, the first sentence is too wordy and is a bit confusion. This is my suggestion: "Ban the Box is an American campaign created by advocates of ex-offenders, which proposed removing the checkbox on hiring applications that asks for criminal record confirmation." For impact, while providing an example of a racial discrimination due to the criminal record check-box is beneficial to the article, there should be an additional section on how this policy impacts racism. With black people being incarnated at 5 times the rate of white people in the US, this policy impacts the Black community especially, and so deserves its own section. It could also be interesting and relevant to research the intent behind implementing the box policy in the first place. Was it proposed by a white, southern, and conservative politician who wants to keep underemployed communities where they are? It was useful to include the public impact and reaction across different states, but it would also be interesting to include the racial demographics of those states and whether or not Black communities felt targeted by this policy.

Reference:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/politics/black-latinx-incarcerated-more/index.html