Equitability of Treatment in Army Judicial Proceedings (ETAJUP)
Abstract
Army-court-marital case data from the US Army Judiciary Clerk of Court was analyzed to assess whether minority soldiers are treated as equitably as White soldiers. The study considered court-martial proceedings, Armywide, over the period FY 1987-1992, limited to cases involving Black and White enlisted personnel. The court-martial trial process and the soldier offenders were characterized by data elements from the case data. The data was analyzed using cross-tabulation and discriminant analysis methods. The work found that: (1) pairwise differences in treatment generated by cross-tabulation of trial process factors with race range from less than 1 percent to a maximum of 13.6 percent and are not consistently associated with either race; (2) models used in the discriminant method employing sets of factors at a time as predictors of group membership did not robustly predict a group membership, and suggest that the trial process, as characterized by these factors, is not sensitive to race. The overall analysis of the data indicates, on balance, no evidence of inequitable treatment of Black offenders within the Army judicial system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA286505
Entities
People
- James J. Connelly
Organizations
- Center for Army Analysis