Abuse of power and institutional violence in the ADF: A culture transformed?

It is vaguely ironic that the two social institutions with the highest reliance on authority are prisons and the military. Both use a uniquely punitive form of authority to enforce conformity to desired norms of behaviour but for starkly different reasons. In a prison, the need for strict discipline reflects a fear that prisoners are dangerous and need to be closely controlled at all times. The fact they are being 'punished' also forms part of the rationale for how they are treated.