Comprehensive Analysis of a Study on the Military and Civilian Criminal Justice System.
Abstract
The report presents a comprehensive analysis of data on personnel confined in military and civilian correctional facilities. Because the sample of Army and Air Force inmates in incomplete, valid service comparisons, particularly with respect to racial discrimination within the military criminal justice system, are possible only when corrected for known differences in age and educational level of the service population. The disproportionate representation of blacks in both the military and civilian correctional institutions is well established. Clearly the military system to a large extent simply mirrors the civilian system. This is particularly apparent in terms of the effects of age, education and offense type on the ratios of blacks to whites in the inmate population, which explain many of the differences in these inmate populations but do not entirely account for service differences, so that additional section processes must be present. Within a given service and offense type no indication of any racial difference in sentence length of preconfinement practice was found.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA013316
Entities
People
- Carl A. Bennett
- Ronald W. Perry