User:OleAthena/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_(penology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I believe rehabilitation is an important aspect of the criminal justice system. It matters because it gives people a chance to feel remorse for their actions and use their experience as a way to grow and learn at any point in their life if they're willing to make that change. There is a bit of information about rehabilitation and seems it could be a good start.

Evaluate the article
In the Article-

There are large sections without citations which is problematic because there are statistics and facts listed, and we don't know where they're coming from so they're less reliable. (Specifically under Legislation: United States.)

Wikipedia has already exhibited a warning for the section titled "Psychopathy and Recidivism" for disputed neutrality as of May 2021. Upon reading it, it doesn't seem that there's emphasis on one thing or side, rather there is a lack of citations again. The lack of citations here make the section seem the information and claims are from the writer's perspective rather than cited experts.

I do enjoy that there's information of criticism of rehabilitation practices because I haven't seen or heard of criticism like what's included in the article.

Under the "Methods:Applications" section, I believe I could contribute with the research and sources I've obtained. I also believe I could start a section in talking about Circle Processes as rehabilitation!

In the Talk Page-

The talk page contains some good ideas for additions to the article. One specifically is under the section "Needs More Information," from an unknown contributor, suggests the addition of the history of criminal rehabilitation as well as notable figures of the rehabilitation movement. I agree with this and am planning on looking more into these topics as rehabilitation is an aspect of the criminal justice system that I'm passionate about and I'd love to know more about the history of it.

Majority of contributions to the talk page are from 5+ years ago which makes me think people aren't looking at and contributing to the page as much anymore as rehabilitation becomes a more known topic.