User:Rav holmes/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Criminology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it relates to my major that I'm studying. Choosing this article I figured it would consist of information I perviously knew so it would be easier to to pinpoint facts and the overall content. I believe Criminology matters because it has an affect on one's life one way or another. After reading the article I will say I'm slightly impressed. All the information is accurate but it does not explain each topic in detail.

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.) Overall, the article is has it strengths and weaknesses. A lot of the topics have only one or two sentences that consist of the textbook definition of the term that is being written about rather than giving substance/examples. If a general audience was reading this article they would not be able to understand. Quite a lit of the article needs to be cited. But mostly I believe the tone is neutral and explains the history of criminology and is organized properly.