The blog post, “Does rehabilitation work on prisoners today?” gives Hui Keat’s opinion on the topic of rehabilitation of prisoners in modern times. The author focuses on how each prisoner should have an in-depth examination before sentencing to best suit his or her need for a better chance at success. Furthering my analysis of each source on a six-point score, I give this blog post a score of 11. For the author category I give the blog post a two. The readers only know the name of the author. When the reader clicks on the name, his author’s page shows up, but nothing is revealed other than that he has been on the website since May 2007. Looking on the internet under his name, a lot of Hui Keat’s come up, so the readers do not know which one
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Saunders and Billante assert that the risk of punishment and increased rates of countries’ imprisonment have the impact of lowering a country’s crime rates. Extending my analysis of each source on a six-point scale, I give this article a 32. For the author category, I give the article a six. One of the two authors, Saunders, is a professor who also published works on topics including poverty, social inequality, and welfare reform while he was the Director of Social Policy Programmes at The Centre for Independent Studies (Saunders). Not much is known about the second author, Billante, except that she is a Research Assistant at The Centre for Independent Studies and has written and co-written articles about the criminal justice system (Billante). In the publisher category, I give the publisher of the article a six. The Centre for Independent Studies is a credible news source since its mission is to “encourage and provide independent, fact-based practical research and encourage/provoke debate that promotes liberty, the rule of law, free enterprise, and an efficient democratic government” (The Centre For Independent Studies, 2017). In the use of sources category, I give the article a six. The article has some out of date information, but the authors supplement it with recent information. The article uses a lot of different sources and graphs which are properly cited, and the citations were given a works cited page. Lastly, for organization/professionalism I give the article a five. Unlike the article written by Benson, Saunders and Billante clearly discuss both sides of their arguments; however, both articles lean to one side. The article is organized properly and neatly. The article got a score of 32 out of 36, meaning that it is a very credible source because the authors are
Saunders and Billante assert that the risk of punishment and increased rates of countries’ imprisonment have the impact of lowering a country’s crime rates. Extending my analysis of each source on a six-point scale, I give this article a 32. For the author category, I give the article a six. One of the two authors, Saunders, is a professor who also published works on topics including poverty, social inequality, and welfare reform while he was the Director of Social Policy Programmes at The Centre for Independent Studies (Saunders). Not much is known about the second author, Billante, except that she is a Research Assistant at The Centre for Independent Studies and has written and co-written articles about the criminal justice system (Billante). In the publisher category, I give the publisher of the article a six. The Centre for Independent Studies is a credible news source since its mission is to “encourage and provide independent, fact-based practical research and encourage/provoke debate that promotes liberty, the rule of law, free enterprise, and an efficient democratic government” (The Centre For Independent Studies, 2017). In the use of sources category, I give the article a six. The article has some out of date information, but the authors supplement it with recent information. The article uses a lot of different sources and graphs which are properly cited, and the citations were given a works cited page. Lastly, for organization/professionalism I give the article a five. Unlike the article written by Benson, Saunders and Billante clearly discuss both sides of their arguments; however, both articles lean to one side. The article is organized properly and neatly. The article got a score of 32 out of 36, meaning that it is a very credible source because the authors are