Overview

The book documents, analyses and makes accessible the law and policy related to illicit drugs in various Asian jurisdictions. The focus is specifically on the measures undertaken in Asia to combat drug offences and, in particular, the use of the death penalty for such offences. It will enhance the ability of public policy and law makers, non-governmental organisations and the general population to engage in the debate on the appropriate approach towards illicit drugs. A wide range of Asian jurisdictions, particularly in Southeast Asia, have been intentionally selected to show a diversity of approaches in the 'war on drugs' debate. The areas examined include developments in the law and policy relating to illicit drugs; use of criminal law measures to combat drug-related offences; motivations of drug offenders; public support for punitive punishments; structure of the laws; procedural rights of accused persons; mandatory/discretionary sentencing and use of the death penalty.

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Author:   Wing-Cheong Chan (Singapore Management University) ,  Mai Sato (Birkbeck, University of London) ,  Michael Hor (The University of Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.601kg
ISBN:  

9781009513517

ISBN 10:   1009513516
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Executing States: 2. China's 'killing less' policy for drug crimes and the role of the judiciary; 3. Normative legitimacy of Iran's capital drug law and its application; 4. Debate and contestation in Singapore's death penalty; Part II. People of Death Row: 5. From the ghetto to the gallows: rights, race, class, and drug crimes in Malaysia; 6. Pathways to prison: economic, personal and relational motivations for drug offending in Indonesia; Part III. Actors and Agencies: 7. National narcotics agencies in Southeast Asia: relics of the regional 'war on drugs'; 8. leadership from below? networked governance in preventing the reintroduction of the death penalty in the Philippines; Part IV. States in Transition: 9. The new narcotics code of Thailand: a promising law?; 10. The undercurrent of the death penalty for drug trafficking in Southeast and East Asia for abolitionist states: the case of Hong Kong; Index.

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Wing-Cheong Chan is Professor at the Singapore Management University. He teaches and researches mainly in the areas of criminal law and family law. His recent projects are on an examination of the criminal laws in various Asian countries. The book publications that he has been involved in include Criminal Law in Singapore (2022), Criminal Law in Sri Lanka (2020), Criminal Law in Myanmar (2016), Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code (2011), and Support for Victims of Crime in Asia (2008). Mai Sato is Professor and Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London (UK). She was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. She was the inaugural director of Eleos Justice-a research initiative on state-sanctioned killing, including the death penalty. Michael Hor is Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong and was Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has taught, researched and published in criminal law, criminal procedure and criminal justice for more than thirty-five years. He was co-editor and contributor of Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (2009 and 2012 (2nd Ed)), and most recently co-editor and contributor of The National Security Law of Hong Kong (2022).

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