Military As a Separate Society - Consequences for Discipline in the United States and Australia

Using the United States and Australia as examples, Collins argues that the justification for separateness weakens both the military standing and the practice of civilian control of the military on top of leading to an overall decline in morality and values in a democratic society.

List of contents

Chapter One: The Military: A Separate Society and Its Morality
Chapter Two: The US Military Experience - Discipline and sexual offending
Chapter Three: Survivors, Perpetrators and the Institutional Responses
Chapter Four: The Australian Military Experience - Discipline and morality
Chapter Five: Lessons from Others
Chapter Six: Concerns and Consequences for the Continuation of Separate Societies
Chapter Seven: Reform necessary for Respect and Discipline

About the author

By Pauline Collins

Summary

Using the United States and Australia as examples, Collins argues that the justification for separateness weakens both the military standing and the practice of civilian control of the military on top of leading to an overall decline in morality and values in a democratic society.

Product details

• Authors: Pauline Collins, Collins Pauline
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498557047
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5704-7
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, LAW / Military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Military and defence law and civilian service law, Military & Defence Law