User:RiShebaB13/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Criminology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I was initially looking for an article related to my career choice (early childhood education/preschool owner) but had no luck locating an article related to that topic. However, the article “Criminology” stood out to me as I am interested in learning more about that topic.

Evaluate the article
This article begins by clearly defining the topic for the reader to understand and caused no distractions. It describes where the term "Criminology" derives from and its meaning. It also lists the professionals that study this behavior. The article’s content provides relevant information on the topic’s history dating back to the 19th century. Because the article’s content is not up to date, I think that more content can be added to the article for recent studies on the topic. I did not notice any equity gaps while reading the article, nor did I notice any marginalized populations being underrepresented or misrepresented. I would consider the article to be neutral as it does not appear to be heavily biased in a particular position. It talks about convict criminology, queer criminology, and cultural criminology and there are not any viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented. After checking a few citations in the article, I noticed that the links work and support the claim in the article. These citations were also reliable references where most of the information appeared to come from neutral sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles of which there was a diverse array of authors and publications. As I read the talk page of the article I saw where some readers were confused about the article’s content. They considered the article to be long and disorganized, which may be the reason it is rated B-Class. The article is also of interest to the Wikiprojects.