User:Subaitar34/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Prison reform


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is fairly all-encompassing, and includes all the debates and approaches behind prison reform that is very helpful.
 * My one reservation is that this article might be overall pretty difficult to add to. If anything I can maybe put more emphasis on what's happening in the modern days, as the last update seems to be from 2018 and most of the article emphasizes historical context.
 * I could also try to add more citations where needed.


 * Sources
 * Dlugash, Mark. ""Nudging" Prisons: New Hope for Real Prison Reform." Kennedy School Review, vol. 13, 2013, pp. 50-55. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.libproxy . berkeley.edu/docview/1444141163?accountid=14496.
 * Barkow, Rachel E. “Life without Parole and the Hope for Real Sentencing Reform.” Life without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?, by Charles J. Ogletree and Austin Sarat, New York University Press, 2012, pp. 190–208.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Criminal justice in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is also incredibly in-depth, citing cases state-by-state and going through every aspect of criminal justice and drug law reform that I didn't know of before.
 * I think the best I could do here is bring the information up to date. The last citations and data I could see being done were from 2017, so maybe that's something that's changed recently.


 * Sources
 * Angle, Roland E. "Build A Mass Movement: Abolish the Probation & Parole Systems To Attack the Foundation of the U.S. Police State." Race, Gender & Class, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 236-245. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/1690371744?accountid=14496.
 * De Giorgi, Alessandro. "Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal Neglect." Social Justice, vol. 44, no. 1, 2017, pp. 83-120. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.libproxy . berkeley.edu/docview/1973741251?accountid=14496.
 * Schoenfeld, Heather. “A Research Agenda on Reform: Penal Policy and Politics across the States.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 664, 2016, pp. 155–174., www.jstor.org/stable/24756113.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Parole board


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article already leads with a request for additional citations for verification, so I think this will be a good article to improve.
 * There is foundation for it to reach a lot of topics, but I feel it doesn't go that much in depth on what actually constitutes a parole board, and what the exact history behind parole reform is. My research has been largely U.S.-based, but I feel I could still add something useful here, mostly because this article seems to be in progress to reaching its full potential.


 * Sources
 * Reingold, Paul D. "From Grace to Grids: Rethinking Due Process Protections for Parole." J. Crim. L. & Criminology 107, no. 2, 2017, pp. 213-92.
 * Schwartzapfel, Beth. “Parole Boards: Problems and Promise.” Federal Sentencing Reporter, vol. 28, no. 2, 2015, pp. 79–84. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26376951.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Life imprisonment in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * I used this article for my evaluation exercise. I think it is underdeveloped but provides a strong foundation. It could improve from more up-to-date details, a stronger connection with parole boards, and inclusion of the different opinions and battles surrounding the topic.


 * Sources
 * Barkow, Rachel E. “Life without Parole and the Hope for Real Sentencing Reform.” Life without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?, by Charles J. Ogletree and Austin Sarat, New York University Press, 2012, pp. 190–208.