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Killing on Command

The Defence of Superior Orders in Modern Combat

Carmel O'Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137495808 (ISBN)

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This book explores the unique social and environmental factors which influence soldiers to commit war crimes. With a focus on decision-making processes, this monograph provides a significant interdisciplinary analysis of how soldiers decide to follow the commands of their superior officers, even if that means acting illegally. Making the key distinction between normal civilian society and the shocking realities of war, the author facilitates the reader with a comprehensive understanding of what a front-line soldier faces in contemporary combat situations.
Killing on Command presents the limits of the law in preventing the occurrence of war crimes. Realistic and practical measures for armed conflict, including the regulation and prevention of violence, and the just implementation of legal standards are all questioned and examined in depth. Given a current focus on the regulation of conduct in war, and the recent prosecution of soldiers, this bookwill be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of criminology and international relations, as well as policy-makers.

Carmel O'Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She specialises in the fields of Criminology of War, International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. Her primary area of research focuses on the individual’s responsibility in contemporary combat and whether the law is reflective of modern warfare.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Development of the Defence of Superior Orders.- Chapter 3. The Law Surrounding Obedience.- Chapter 4. Military Training: The Creation of the Modern Soldier.- Chapter 5. The Trained Soldier in Contemporary Combat.- Chapter 6. The Influence of Contemporary Combat on the Modern Soldier: A Force for Good or Bad.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Critical Criminological Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	IX, 226 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	Army • Criminal Law • Criminology • Critical criminology • environmental factors of war • International Relations • manifestly unlawful • Military • military culture • military training • modern warfare • reasonable soldier • social production of war crimes • Sociology • war
ISBN-13	9781137495808 / 9781137495808
Zustand	Neuware