Military as a Separate Society

Consequences for Discipline in the United States and Australia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

The exercise of public power by the military in civilian Western democracies such as Australia and the United States demonstrates a tendency toward diminished responsibility for moral behavior. Pauline Collins argues that a different system of military criminal investigation and discipline outside the civilian justice system enables the military to operate like a coterie and can lead to a failure in the requisite moral standard of behavior required of military personnel and maintaining civilian institutional control. Collins argues that the justifications for separate treatment weakens both the military reputation and the practice of civilian control of the military as well as leading to an overall decline in morality and values in a democratic society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-09
Mått:161 x 225 x 31 mm
Vikt:694 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498557047

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Pauline Collins is professor in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland.

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As a legal officer in the Australian Army Reserve (now long retired), I personally encountered numerous aspects of Pauline Collins’s excellent work, The Military as a Separate Society, in particular the complicated questions raised by the extent of civilian institutional control over the military. This is a comprehensive work, and possibly the only one of its kind, to perform such a detailed analysis of the American and Australian experiences. Certainly at least for military legal officers, it is a compelling read. For those presently serving, it provides a valuable insight into the nuances of how these questions are viewed institutionally. For those who have left the service, this book vividly brings to life the vexed issues they likely were called upon to resolve, and it will leave them wishing that such a valuable resource had been available to them earlier.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: The Military: A Separate Society and Its MoralityChapter Two: The US Military Experience – Discipline and sexual offendingChapter Three: Survivors, Perpetrators and the Institutional ResponsesChapter Four: The Australian Military Experience – Discipline and moralityChapter Five: Lessons from OthersChapter Six: Concerns and Consequences for the Continuation of Separate SocietiesChapter Seven: Reform necessary for Respect and Discipline