1897.3	Assessment
Research Question (Clear, unambiguous)	"How much does exposure to the criminal justice system effect future employment opportunities among young adults?"  "Exposure" is vague, but presumably the intent is to ask how a record of conviction and jail time effects employment.
Relevant Literature	The listed article is relevant but gives little hint of the large literature on this issue.
Causal Interpretations (clear, all parts defined, mechanisms, controls, plausible)	Stating that people who have been in jail will have more difficulty getting hired than those who have not, is less a causal assertion than a statement of the obvious.
Data (variables, sample, comparison)	The NLS is okay, but simply comparing those who were jailed with those who were not will only show the obvious.  What is it that is actually worth discovering and how can this data help?
Research Value	We know that jail time reduces people's employment chances, so it will take something else to give value to this project.
Overall	Again, an overly general, simple question followed by a similarly simplistic design does not add up to much.