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DISCIPLINE<br />

Hazing in the ADF: A Culture of Denial?<br />

Dr Richard Evans<br />

ABSTRACT<br />

Hazing, or bastardisation, has been the subject of repeated scandal in the<br />

<strong>Australian</strong> Defence Force (ADF) for at least 40 years. At its most serious,<br />

as documented in the 2011 Piper Report, hazing is clearly criminal behaviour.<br />

This article uses the techniques of criminology to explore hazing as a group<br />

social practice in the ADF, and considers whether the response of the ADF to<br />

hazing can be characterised as collective denial.<br />

<strong>Australian</strong> <strong>Army</strong> <strong>Journal</strong><br />

Culture edition 2013, Volume X, Number 3 Page 113

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