Editing Draft evasion (section)

====By circumventing the law====
[[File:Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Conscientious Objectors HU62359.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right|alt=Panel appearing to consist of judges and COs|Tribunal for conscientious objectors in Britain during [[World War II]]]]
* Obtaining conscientious objector status by professing insincere religious or ethical beliefs.<ref name=Kusch />{{refn||name=first|group=nb}}
* Obtaining a student deferment, if the student wishes to attend or remain in school largely to avoid the draft.<ref name=Braw />
* Claiming a medical or psychological problem, if the purported problem is feigned, overstated, or self-inflicted.<ref name=Christ /><ref name=Wittmann /><ref name=Kusch /><ref name=Fallows />
* Finding a doctor who would certify a healthy draft-age person as medically unfit, either willingly or for pay.<ref name=Lawrence>Baskir and Strauss (1987), p.&nbsp;12.</ref>
* Deliberately [[Self-harm|self-injuring]] oneself.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/videos-show-russian-men-breaking-limbs-avoid-conscription-1748836 |title=Videos Show Russian Men Breaking Limbs to Avoid Conscription |last=Bickerton |first=James |date=4 October 2022 |website=Newsweek |publisher=Newsweek |access-date=10 May 2025}}</ref>
* Becoming pregnant primarily in order to evade the draft, in nations where women who are not mothers are drafted.<ref name=CL />
* Falsely claiming to be homosexual, where the military excludes homosexuals.<ref name=Kusch />
* Deliberately failing one's military-related intelligence tests.<ref name=Kusch />
* Claiming economic hardship, if the purported hardship is overstated.<ref>Dunn, Clive; Dunn, Gillian (2014).  ''Sunderland in the Great War''.  Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books, p.&nbsp;49 (reporting on a British grocer who was refused a financial exemption, and was given a two-month "extension" instead).  {{ISBN|978-1-78346-286-5}}.</ref>
* Having someone exert personal influence on an officer in charge of the conscription process.<ref name=Christ />
* Successfully [[bribery|bribing]] an officer in charge of the conscription process.<ref name=Braw /><ref name=Lawrence />