Australian Army Journal

DISCIPLINE
Hazing in the ADF:
A Culture of Denial?
THE AUTHOR
Dr Richard Evans is a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University, Geelong.
ENDNOTES
1 Michelle Finkel, ‘Traumatic injuries caused by hazing practices’, American Journal of Emergency
Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2002, pp. 228–33.
2 Sir John Monash, The Australian Victories in France in 1918, Hutchison, London, 1920, pp. 135–36.
3 Richard Evans, Disasters that Changed Australia, Victory, Melbourne, 2009, Ch. 2 ‘Just slaughter’.
4 Gary Rumble, Melanie McKean, D.C. Pearce, Department of Defence and DLA Piper, ‘Report
of the Review of Allegations of Sexual and Other Abuse in Defence Facing the Problems of
the Past, Vol. 1, General Findings and Recommendations,’ Department of Defence, Canberra,
2011 (the report was publicly released early in 2012, and is sometimes given that date.
Henceforth ‘Piper Report’).
5 Ibid., p. 73.
6 See, for example, Piper Report, p. 58.
7 See, for example, Commodore Brian Adams, Commandant of ADFA, ‘Presentation to COSC
on Implementing Grey Report 1998’, Progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the
Grey Report, cited in Piper Report, p. 86.
8 OED Online, March 2013, Oxford University Press at: http://www.oed.com.ezproxy-m.deakin.
edu.au/view/Entry/16051?rskey=NzNVab&result=7&isAdvanced=false (accessed 8 April 2013).
9 Aldo Cimino, ‘The evolution of hazing: Motivational mechanisms and the abuse of newcomers’,
Journal of Cognition & Culture, Vol. 11, No. 3/4, 2011, pp. 241–67.
10 Finkel, ‘Traumatic injuries caused by hazing practices’.
11 Hank Nuwer, Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, sororities, hazing, and binge drinking, Indiana
University Press, Bloomington, 1999.
12 Finkel, ‘Traumatic injuries caused by hazing practices’.
13 See for example Judy Chu, ‘Military hazing has got to stop’, Chinese American Forum, Vol. 28,
No. 2, 2012, pp. 22–23.
14 Dale R. Herspring, ‘Undermining combat readiness in the Russian military, 1992-2005’, Armed
Forces & Society, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2006, pp. 513–31; Carlos Linhares de Albuquerque and
Eduardo Paes-Machado, ‘The hazing machine: The shaping of Brazilian military police recruits’,
Policing & Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2004, pp. 175–92; Kristina Østvik and Floyd Rudmin,
‘Bullying and hazing among Norwegian army soldiers: Two studies of prevalence, context,
and cognition’, Military Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2001, pp. 17–39; Jana Pershing, ‘Men
and women’s experiences with hazing in a male-dominated elite military institution’, Men and
Masculinities, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2006, pp. 470–92.
15 Piper Report, p. 73.
16 Ibid., p. 76.
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