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Additional authors

1. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, sponsoring body

Description

1. 1 online resource (viii, 171 pages) : color illustrations

Summary

1. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) was established to provide a statutory framework that promotes fair administration of military justice. Every active-duty servicemember is subject to the UCMJ, with more than 258,000 individuals disciplined from fiscal years 2013-2017, out of more than 2.3 million unique active-duty servicemembers. A key principle of the UCMJ is that a fair and just system of military law can foster a highly disciplined force. This report assesses the extent to which (1) the military services collect and maintain consistent race, ethnicity, and gender information for servicemembers investigated and disciplined for UCMJ violations that can be used to assess disparities, and (2) there are racial and gender disparities in the military justice system, and whether disparities have been studied by DOD. GAO is making 11 recommendations, including that the services develop the capability to present consistent race and ethnicity data, and DOD include demographic information in military justice annual reports and evaluates the causes of disparities in the military justice system.

Alternative title

1. Military justice : Department of Defense and the Coast Guard need to improve their capabilities to assess racial and gender disparities
2. DOD and the Coast Guard need to improve their capabilities to assess racial and gender disparities
3. GAO-19-344 Military justice

Subject

1. United States
2. United States. Department of Defense -- Rules and practice
3. United States. Coast Guard -- Rules and practice
4. United States. Coast Guard
5. United States. Department of Defense
6. Uniform Code of Military Justice (United States)
7. Military offenses -- United States -- Statistics
8. Equality before the law -- United States
9. Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States
10. Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
11. Equality before the law
12. Military offenses
13. United States

Genre/Form

1. Statistics
2. Statistics.

Contents

1. Background -- The military services collect and maintain gender information, but do not collect and maintain consistent information about race and ethnicity, limiting their ability to collectively or comparatively assess data to identify any disparities -- Racial and gender disparities exist in military justice investigations, disciplinary actions, and case outcomes, but have not been comprehensively studied to identify causes -- Conclusions -- Recommendations for executive action -- Agency comments and our evaluation -- Appendices.

Call number

1. GPO Internet GA 1.13:GAO-19-344

Note

1. "May 2019."
2. "GAO-19-344."
3. In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description (note)

1. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed June 1, 2019).

Author

1. United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Title

1. Military justice : DOD and the Coast Guard need to improve their capabilities to assess racial and gender disparities : report to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives / United States Government Accountability Office.

Publisher

1. Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, 2019.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

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1. https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo231989

Added author

1. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, sponsoring body.

Running title

1. GAO-19-344 Military justice

Gpo item no.

1. 0546-D (online)

Sudoc no.

1. GA 1.13:GAO-19-344

Research call number

1. GPO Internet GA 1.13:GAO-19-344