Authoritarian Regimes and the Media: How They Shape Perception and Support for Capital Punishment in ASEAN

• Main Author: Chan-Gonzaga, Ma Ngina Teresa V.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: Communication; Criminology; Mass Communication; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance; Social Influence and Political Communication; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ateneo-school-of-law-pubs/55; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8840-0_5
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This chapter examines the ways by which authoritarianism and the media affect public perception and support for capital punishment in the ASEAN region by outlining and discussing its tenacious, oft perplexing, support there. Despite the worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty, ASE...