Title: Military justice : a guide to the issues /
Authors: Morris, Lawrence J.
Publisher: Praeger,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry United States.; Trials (Military offenses) United States
Abstract: "This volume accomplishes two main purposes: it provides comprehensive, accurate, and current information about the military justice system and related disciplinary features written by a lawyer but in laymen's language; and it explains the system through illustrative or engaging anecdotes, including the trials of Billy Mitchell, Eddie Slovak and the World War II Nazi saboteurs, whose capture and trial provide the basis for the Guantanamo-based trials of suspected terrorists, initiated by President Bush and continued by President Obama. The U.S. military justice system continues to thrive and expand while systems in our Allied nations have been restricted or virtually shut down. This volume provides some insights on why this is, while educating citizens and practitioners in its function, rules and traditions"--Jacket.
Contents: Why a military justice system : an introduction to the theory and history of American military justice -- Founding of the republic to modern times : military justice develops alongside the professional military -- Basics of the military justice system : structure and levels of military courts -- Basics of the military justice system : the investigative and pretrial process -- Basics of the military justice system : defining criminal conduct in a unique society -- Basics of the military justice system : the trial and appellate process -- Implementing the Uniform Code of Military Justice : a generation of change -- There's more to military justice than courts-martial : nonjudicial punishment and administrative separations -- Back to the future : military commissions to try war criminals.