Evaluate your information/article:
Does the information answer your original questions?
Is the information accurate?
What is fact and what is opinion?
Is the information current?
What is the point of view of the author or publisher? What is your point of view?
Ask yourself the questions: Who, What, Where, When, Why about each piece of information that you find.
To use this table, first go to your topic of arrests, bail or sentencing/incarceration. Next, go down the column on the left and find the group that you are studying: race, ethnicity, sex, socio-economic class. As an example, if I am looking at the effects of bail on women, I would look down the bail column until I got to the sex category. There I would see two links to a source of statistics on bail and sex. To get general population statistics for the US, click on the link to the census right below here.
Arrests |
Bail |
Sentencing Incarceration |
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Race |
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book |
US Sentencing Commission Report
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book
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Ethnicity |
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book |
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Sex/Gender |
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book
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Socio-economic |