Martial Justice
Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN :
Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN :
Author : Chris Bray
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393243419
A timely, provocative account of how military justice has shaped American society since the nation’s beginnings. Historian and former soldier Chris Bray tells the sweeping story of military justice from the earliest days of the republic to contemporary arguments over using military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of sexual assault. Stretching from the American Revolution to 9/11, Court-Martial recounts the stories of famous American court-martials, including those involving President Andrew Jackson, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Lieutenant Jackie Robinson, and Private Eddie Slovik. Bray explores how encounters of freed slaves with the military justice system during the Civil War anticipated the civil rights movement, and he explains how the Uniform Code of Military Justice came about after World War II. With a great eye for narrative, Bray hones in on the human elements of these stories, from Revolutionary-era militiamen demanding the right to participate in political speech as citizens, to black soldiers risking their lives during the Civil War to demand fair pay, to the struggles over the court-martial of Lieutenant William Calley and the events of My Lai during the Vietnam War. Throughout, Bray presents readers with these unvarnished voices and his own perceptive commentary. Military justice may be separate from civilian justice, but it is thoroughly entwined with American society. As Bray reminds us, the history of American military justice is inextricably the history of America, and Court-Martial powerfully documents the many ways that the separate justice system of the armed forces has served as a proxy for America’s ongoing arguments over equality, privacy, discrimination, security, and liberty.
Author : Francis A. Gilligan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : 9780769866017
Author : Eugene R. Fidell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199303495
This book presents an accessible and honest assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of military justice around the world, with particular emphasis on the US, UK, and Canada.
Author : Jack Hamann
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1565123948
Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.
Author : Meredith Lentz Adams
Publisher : True Crime History (Kent State
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN :
"This book deals with four murder cases during World War II, for which fifteen German war prisoners held in camps on American soil were sentenced to death, and fourteen hanged. It emphasizes one case that best illustrates how the War Department interpreted, observed, and violated the Geneva Convention of 1929. It also deals with the War Department's consequent diplomatic and public relations problems and with its attempts to control the prison camps"--Introduction.
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN :
Author : Robert Sherrill
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Lutes Hillman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691224269
From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining the Cold War court-martial, Defending America opens a new window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden in the military's enforcement of crime, and gay men and lesbians paid the price for the armed forces' official hostility toward homosexuality. While the U.S. military fought to defend the Constitution, the Cold War court-martial punished those who wavered from accepted political convictions, sexual behavior, and social conventions, threatening the very rights of due process and free expression the Constitution promised.
Author : Michael R. McAntee
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Military law
ISBN :