英文摘要 |
In Taiwan, ketamine use among the young people has increased in recent years. Some legislators have called for upgrading ketamine use to a more serious criminal offence. These calls have been repeatedly rebuffed-for the eighth time in two years-by the advisory council which sets drug policy, we examined the context in which the demand for reclassification and the harsher punishment of ketamine users has arisen. We draw on the concept of“moral panic”and focused on the nature of the reaction to the problem by a particular group of people(legislators)in 2011 and 2012. Furthermore, we tied the concept of moral panic to Nobert Elias'arguments concerning the“civilizing processes. we situated this”short-term moral panic, which we regarded as a decivilizing process, within the longer term“civilizing process of democratization. In this article, we argued that, in Taiwan, democratization(a civilizing process)has played an important role in fostering the conditions in which moral panics(a decivilizing process)can ecase at is heavily inflected by the legacy of authoritarianism. |