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=== Template for Assignment 3b: Evaluate Wikipedia Article [COPY ONLY. DO NOT CUT] ===

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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Yes everything from this article was relevant Public criminology was clearly explained in a vague manor but that because if you went into depth about Public Criminology this would be a huge page about giving research to citizens about crime, punishment, and criminal law/penal codes. Is there anything that distracted you? Nothing distracted me because the page flowed well there was history included in the page and criticisms. Obviously this page was put together well.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Nothing was outdated this is a relatively small group of people who know about public criminology and sources are tough to come across unless on a library database.
 * What else could be improved? More sources from library related database could make thing better other than that it's a good page.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? I'd say this page is neutral it's not swaying towards one side rather it's just laying the foundation and information about public criminology.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? I'd say viewpoints are good not over represented more so underrepresented this page could use some more work but it's not bad.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? The links do work I clicked four of them and I was redirected to .edu pages or credible scholarly articles. Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? Sources are good they're from a spectrum of different places.
 * Talk Page
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? It has more depth since it was a previous semesters class project.

Assignment 3c: Topic Choice & Site of Planned InterventionGeneral Group Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations [be sure to sign your entries here] this is my idea DoctorKarpiak (talk) 17:29, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Personally I’d remove the part on the Public criminology Wikipedia page about the history with Beccaria. In the talk section there was some criticism about this being formatted to much like an essay instead of encyclopedia page. This topic is a little bit vague to work with since there really isn’t much information on it from google scholar or the EMU library database. The best thing the general group can do it get rid of that Beccaria criminology photo and keep checking the data base for more accredited sources to back up this page and make it more professional.

Vincenzo Ruggiero wrote an article called "How Public is Public Criminology" back in 08/2012. Vincenzo speaks about how society has had dilemmas with social movements and educated criminologists speaking out towards law enforcement and judicial representatives on there feelings of law, incarceration, courts, hate crimes, genocide, etc. A Lot of this paper speaks about more sociology based stuff rather than public criminology. But id recommend speaking more about public sociology on the public criminology page to replace the history section. There are far more sources on Public Sociology. In the Wikipedia learning modules it speaks about having at least several edu/credible sources per paragraph. I think having more information on Public sociology would be a large advancement in this wiki page. Koshea2 (talk) 19:01, 15 May 2019 (UTC)Koshea2

Assignment 3g

Against marginality: Arguments for a public criminology

Eliot Curries briefly talks about how the United States has very little to brag about in Criminal Justice of Criminology as a whole. The United States leads above all other countries in Incarceration. "Mass incarceration has deepened the his- toric gaps in life chances between affluent and poor, white and black, and created a vast army of the socially and economically disabled: it fruitlessly sucks up billions of dollars, year after year, that we need for more produc- tive and humane purposes."(Currie P.176) If you look at a country such as Japan less then five people are shot per year. I saw a CNN report from a couple of years ago how in Japan to get a gun it takes 40 days and you can only purchase hunting rifles you can not obtain handguns unless you're army personnel or law enforcement in Japan.