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- Title
Is ''Mandatory Justice'' Right for the Military?
- Authors
HERNANDEZ, ELIZABETH CAMERON
- Abstract
The article offers information on the history, opportunities and challenges of the mandatory minimum punishments regime passed by the U.S. Congress for addressing the misconduct and indiscipline by military personnel under the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 1950. It informs that allegations of rape, sexual assault, and forcible sodomy are referred to a General Court-Martial, the most serious type of court-martial under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MANDATORY minimum sentences; AMERICAN military personnel; UNITED States. Uniform Code of Military Justice; COURTS-martial &; courts of inquiry; SODOMY; SEXUAL assault laws; RAPE; UNITED States. Congress; RAPE laws; LEGAL status of military personnel
- Publication
Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 3, p131
- ISSN
1053-9867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/fsr.2015.27.3.131