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Time for Change

The military needs to handle rape allegations with greater sensitivity—and harsher punishments for offenders

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Martha Brant
Newsweek
Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET April 02, 2004

“We have a commandcentric military-justice system,” explains Eugene Fidell, a military-justice expert and president of the National Institute of Military Justice. “Who gets prosecuted, for what and what kind of sanctions they face are decisions made by commanders rather than prosecutors.”