"Shabu is different": Extrajudicial Killings, Death Penalty, and 'Methamphetamine Exceptionalism' in the Philippines

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• الموضوعات: Methamphetamine; Drug wars; Extrajudicial killings; Death penalty; Drug policy; Problematisation; Philippines; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Development Studies; Other Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/75; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395921000669?via%3Dihub

Background: This paper articulates and problematises the 'exceptionalism' in the way shabu (crystal methamphetamine) is framed in political and popular discourse in the Philippines, and how these framings have informed and enabled the drug regime in the country, creating a 'state of e...