‘Saving the Youth’: Children and Young People as Moral Subjects in the Philippines’ Punitive Drug Regime

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Abesamis, Luis Emmanuel A
• 格式: text
• 出版: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• 主題: drug policy; moralities; policy constellations; Youth; Anthropology; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance; Sociology
• 在線閱讀: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/269; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/article/1269/viewcontent/Saving_the_youth___Children_and_young_people_as_moral_subjects_in_the_Philippines__punitive_drug_regime.pdf
• 機構: Ateneo De Manila University

Background The Philippines has one of the must punitive drug regimes in the world, as evidenced not just by Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war but previous anti-drug campaigns. This article examines the place of ‘the youth’ in the longstanding moral panic around drugs and drug policy in the Philippines. Met...