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Vorbeugender Brandschutz in der Gebäudeplanung: Vom Entwurf zum Brandschutzkonzept
by Claus LangeDas Lehrbuch vermittelt anschaulich Grundlagen zur brandschutztechnischen Planung von Gebäuden mit unterschiedlichen Nutzungen. Dabei werden die Schutzziele des vorbeugenden Brandschutzes sowie die baulichen, technischen und organisatorischen Brandschutzmaßnahmen vor dem Hintergrund der Verknüpfung mit dem abwehrenden Brandschutz eingehend erläutert sowie praxisgerecht dargestellt. Vertiefende Einblicke in die Rettungswegsicherung sowie die Anwendung von Ingenieurmethoden des Brandschutzes runden das Werk ab. Ein Anhang mit Übersichten zu brandschutztechnischen Anforderungen an unterschiedliche Gebäudearten (z. B. Wohn- und Geschäftshäuser, Büro- und Verwaltungsgebäude, Versammlungsstätten, Krankenhäuser, Industriebauten) sowie ein ausführliches Glossar können zum schnellen Nachschlagen wichtiger Fakten genutzt werden. Das Werk eignet sich auch als Nachschlagewerk für Praktiker bei der Erstellung von Brandschutzkonzepten.
Vorsatzanfechtung: Mit Rechtsprechungsregeln Ansprüche vermeiden, abwehren und verfolgen (essentials)
by Tobias Hirte Karsten KieselTobias Hirte und Karsten Kiesel stellen Rechtsprechungsregeln für Vorsatzanfechtungsfälle gemäß § 133 InsO unter Nennung der jeweils wesentlichen Entscheidungen des Bundesgerichtshofs dar, die im Zusammenhang mit Vorsatzanfechtungssachverhalten stehen. Dabei wird besonderes Augenmerk auf Indizien, Beweisanzeichen sowie Beweiserleichterungen gelegt. Anhand dieser Kriterien lassen sich allgemeine Erwägungen ableiten, die für Fälle der Vorsatzanfechtung gelten. Die Vorsatzanfechtung ist sowohl für den Insolvenzverwalter, und damit für die Gläubiger im Rahmen eines Insolvenzverfahrens, als auch für die (potenziellen) Anfechtungsgegner ein bedeutendes Thema.
Vorschlagswesen zur Innovation in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung: Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter treiben die Veränderung (essentials)
by Hans-Dieter Schat Gottfried RichenhagenDie öffentliche Verwaltung unterliegt einem großen Veränderungsdruck durch die Digitalisierung (Onlinezugangsgesetz!) und die Demografie (Fachkräftemangel und Generation Y in den Verwaltungen, "Digital Natives" und anspruchsvolle ältere Seniorinnen und Senioren als Bürger). Dadurch ist der Kostendruck schon fast zur Gewohnheit geworden. Öffentliche Verwaltungen bestehen aus Menschen. Wenn die Mitarbeitenden in den Verwaltungen nicht mitgenommen werden, dann wird ein Wandel nicht gelingen. Mit dem Vorschlagswesen wird ein bewährtes Konzept vorgestellt. Hier können die Mitarbeitenden selbst aktiv werden und ihre Sicht einbringen. Dies führt zu einer neuen Kultur in der Verwaltung.
Vorstandsvergütung 2020: Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Vergütung nach Umsetzung der ARUG II-Richtlinie und der DCGK Reform 2020 (Juridicum - Schriften zum Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsrecht)
by Florian TimmerAusufernde Vergütungen für Vorstände von börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften entsprechen einem öffentlichen Vorurteil. Das gilt gerade dann, wenn die Gesellschaften selbst zuvor keine ebenso hohen Gewinne erwirtschafteten oder die Börsenkurse ins Wanken gerieten. Auch sonst sorgten millionenhohe Vergütungen oft für öffentliches Unverständnis. Aus diesem Grund hat der europäische Gesetzgeber mit Erlass der zweiten Aktionärsrechterichtlinie (2. ARRL) einen weiteren Regulierungsversuch unternommen, um diesem Phänomen einen Riegel vorzuschieben. In Deutschland wurde die Richtlinie durch das zweite Aktionärsrechterichtlinien-Umsetzungsgesetz (ARUG II) in nationales Recht überführt. In unmittelbarem Zusammenhang damit wurde auch der Deutsche Corporate Governance Kodex in seiner ab 2020 geltenden Fassung (DCGK 2020) deutlich überarbeitet. Auf der Basis dieser Neuerungen wertet dieses Werk aus, ob bekannte Probleme der Vergütung gelöst wurden. Zudem wird die neue Gesetzeslage kritisch gewürdigt. Abschließend wird auf die impliziten Auswirkungen eingegangen.
Vorstandsvergütung als Mechanismus der Corporate Governance: Grundsätze für die Konzeption und Publizität der Vorstandsvergütung in Deutschland (Rechnungswesen und Unternehmensüberwachung)
by Laura BundleDie Vorstandsvergütung stellt einen wesentlichen Mechanismus der Corporate Governance dar. Durch das Gesetz zur Umsetzung der zweiten Aktionärsrechterichtlinie (ARUG II) werden neue Anforderungen an die Konzeption und Publizität der Vorstandsvergütung gestellt. Die Verfasserin unterzieht die Änderungen der vergütungsbezogenen Corporate-Governance-Mechanismen einer umfassenden normativen und empirisch-deskriptiven Analyse. Es wird untersucht, ob durch das ARUG II eine Verbesserung der Corporate Governance in Deutschland erfolgt. Durch die Entwicklung von Grundsätzen für die Vorstandsvergütung normiert Laura Bundle weiterführende Anforderungen an die Konzeption und Publizität der Vorstandsvergütung.Die AutorinDr. Laura Bundle promovierte als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bei Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Böcking an der Professur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wirtschaftsprüfung und Corporate Governance an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Votes and More for Women: Suffrage and After in Connecticut
by Carole NicholsThis fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut’s women’s feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Votescam: The Stealing of America (Forbidden Bookshelf #15)
by James M. Collier Kenneth F. CollierThe groundbreaking investigation into the corruption of American democracy, beginning at the voting booth This book is the culmination of a 25-year investigation into computerized vote fraud in the United States. Journalists James and Kenneth Collier pose the question, "Why can't we vote the bastards out?" Their answer: "Because we didn't even vote the bastards in." Votescam fills in the blanks for anyone who senses that their ballot is worthless, but does not know why. It tracks down, confronts, and calls the names of Establishment thieves who silently steal votes for their own profit. It comes face-to-face with the Supreme Court justice who buried key vote fraud evidence; the most powerful female publisher in America, who refused to permit her newspapers and television stations to expose vote rigging; the Attorney General who jailed Jim Collier to avoid an investigation into vote fraud; and a cast of weak-kneed, corrupt politicians, lawyers, and members of the media entangled in a massive crime, but who have yet to be held accountable. First published in 1992, this groundbreaking exposé has been updated by journalist Victoria Collier, daughter and niece, respectively, of the late James and Kenneth Collier, and editor of Votescam.org, to reflect modern threats to American democracy. As computers grow ever more powerful, the need to read Votescam is increasingly urgent.
Voting Rights of Refugees
by Ruvi ZieglerVoting Rights of Refugees develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have the right to vote in the political community where they reside, assuming that this community is a democracy and that its citizens have the right to vote. The book argues that recognised refugees are a special category of non-citizen residents: they are unable to participate in elections of their state of origin, do not enjoy its diplomatic protection and consular assistance abroad, and are unable or unwilling, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution, to return to it. Refugees deserve to have a place in the world, in the Arendtian sense, where their opinions are significant and their actions are effective. Their state of asylum is the only community in which there is any prospect of political participation on their part.
Voting in Elections (U.S. Government)
by Amy KortuemWhat is an election? Learn about elections and why it is important that people vote. Descriptive main text, full-color photos, fast facts, and callout definitions work together to support understanding.
Voto en contra
by José Ramón Cossío DíazEste libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones. En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido- los límites a la libertad de expresión, los derechos de los indígenas a juicios justos, las fronteras de la privacidad, la inclusión, el valor de los tratados internacionales e incluso el "derecho a la irreverencia", entre muchos otros. Y poco a poco, gracias a jueces como José Ramón Cossío, las perspectivas más progresistas han ido ganando terreno. En esta obra, el exministro explica con sencillez y pasión algunos de los votos más importantes de su carrera: aquéllos en los que discrepó con la mayoría, pero que a la larga permitieron más derechos, más democracia, más pluralidad. Voto en contra revela, así, un país dinámico, vibrante y complejo, en el que la inteligencia y las instituciones pueden librar y ganar las batallas más trascendentes.
Votos, drogas y violencia
by Guillermo Trejo¿POR QUÉ A MEDIDA QUE LA DEMOCRACIA SE HA CONSOLIDADO EN MÉXICO LA VIOLENCIA A GRAN ESCALA SE HA MULTIPLICADO?. Guillermo Trejo y Sandra Ley ofrecen en este libro una teoría novedosa y necesaria sobre la violencia criminal, que enfatiza la influencia crucial de la política. A partir de estudios de caso en profundidad y análisis estadísticos que abarcan más de dos décadas y distintos niveles de gobierno, muestran que los procesos de transición democrática, aunados a la fragmentación del poder político, pudieron ser la causa principal del estallido e intensificación de las guerras en México, así como su expansión a las esferas de la política local y la sociedad civil. A diferencia de estudios previos, que ven a los grupos de crimen organizado como empresas económicas libres que operan en oposición a las autoridades estatales, Trejo y Ley los conciben como grupos ilegales íntimamente relacionados con el Estado. Por tanto, estos grupos responden al cambio político: el crimen organizado no puede existir ni operar con éxito si no cuenta con algún grado de protección estatal. Los autores denominan a esa intersección colaborativa zona gris, un espacio donde los grupos criminales pueden respirar, crecer, reproducirse y triunfar. Sin embargo, cuando la esfera del poder estatal cambia, el equilibrio de la zona gris también lo hace y eso genera violencia. Votos, drogas y violencia propone un nuevo enfoque político que amplía nuestra comprensión del crimen organizado y de las condiciones que propician la guerra y la paz en el inframundo criminal.
Voyage Charters (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library)
by Andrew Taylor Michael Ashcroft John Kimball Julian Cooke David Martowski LeRoy Lambert Michael Sturley Tim YoungWidely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts. Voyage Charters provides the reader with a clause-by-clause analysis of the two major charterparty forms: the Gencon standard charterparty contract and the Asbatankvoy form. It also delivers thorough treatment of COGSA and the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, a comparative analysis of English and United States law, and a detailed section on arbitration awards. Key features of the fourth edition: The only textbook to deal specifically with this key area of maritime law Written by an impressive team of highly-regarded maritime authorities from both sides of the Atlantic Contains a wealth of updated English and American case law and arbitrations, as well as addressing broader issues such as Rome II Regulation Convention regarding the conflict of laws Practical user-friendly guide, which is accessible not only to lawyers but also shipping professionals A new, detailed United States law section on COGSA This book is an indispensable, practical guide for both contentious and non-contentious shipping law practitioners, and postgraduate students studying this area of law.
Voyage Charters (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library)
by Andrew Taylor Michael Ashcroft John Kimball Julian Cooke David Martowski LeRoy Lambert Michael Sturley Tim YoungWidely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts. Voyage Charters provides the reader with a clause-by-clause analysis of the two major charterparty forms: the Gencon standard charterparty contract and the Asbatankvoy form. It also delivers thorough treatment of COGSA and the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, a comparative analysis of English and United States law, and a detailed section on arbitration awards. This book is an indispensable, practical guide for both contentious and non-contentious shipping law practitioners, and postgraduate students studying this area of law.
Voyage Charters (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library)
by Andrew Taylor Michael Ashcroft John Kimball Julian Cooke David Martowski LeRoy Lambert Michael Sturley Tim YoungWidely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts.Voyage Charters provides the reader with a clause-by-clause analysis of the two major charterparty forms: the Gencon standard charterparty contract and the Asbatankvoy form. It also delivers thorough treatment of COGSA and the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, a comparative analysis of English and United States law, and a detailed section on arbitration awards.This book is an indispensable, practical guide for both contentious and non-contentious shipping law practitioners, and postgraduate students studying this area of law.
Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture
by Clay CalvertFrom 24-hour-a-day "girl cam" sites on the World Wide Web to trash-talk television shows like "Jerry Springer" and reality television programs like "Cops," we've become a world of voyeurs. We like to watch others as their intimate moments, private facts, secrets, and dirty laundry are revealed. Voyeur Nation traces the evolution and forces driving what the author calls the 'voyeurism value. ' Calvert argues that although spectatorship and sensationalism are far from new phenomena, today a confluence of factors-legal, social, political, and technological-pushes voyeurism to the forefront of our image-based world. The First Amendment increasingly is called on to safeguard our right, via new technologies and recording devices, to peer into the innermost details of others' lives without fear of legal repercussion. But Calvert argues that the voyeurism value contradicts the value of discourse in democracy and First Amendment theory, since voyeurism by its very nature involves merely watching without interacting or participating. It privileges watching and viewing media images over participating and interacting in democracy.
Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law
by Jonathan Herring Julie WallbankWhile in the past family life was characterised as a "haven from the harsh realities of life", it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship. This book addresses the strong relationships that exist between vulnerability and care and dependency in particular contexts, where family law and social policy have a contribution to make. A fundamental premise of this collection is that vulnerability needs to be analysed in a way that gets at the heart of the differential power relationships that exist in society, particularly in respect of access to family justice, including effective social policy and law targeted at the specific needs of families in mutually dependent caring relationships. It is therefore crucial to critically examine the various approaches taken by policy makers and law reformers in order to understand the range of ways that some families, and some family members, may be rendered more vulnerable than others. The first book of its kind to provide an intersectional approach to this subject, Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law will be of interest to students and practitioners of social policy and family law.
Vulnerabilities: Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-pandemic (Integrated Science #18)
by Stefania Achella Chantal MaraziaDrawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability. The essays here contained take the move from the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to explore the inherent vulnerability of individuals, but also of social, economic and political systems, and probe the descriptive and prescriptive import of the concept.Each chapter provides a self-contained perspective on vulnerability, as well as a specific methodological framework for questioning its meaning. Taken together, the chapters combine into a multi-disciplinary toolkit for approaching the various forms and structures of vulnerability, with a special attention to the intersectional factors shaping the individual experience of it: from gender to age, from disability to mental illness, from hospitalisation to incarceration. The book explores the theoretical richness and complexity of the concept and proposes new analytical approaches to it, before illustrating its multifariousness through empirically grounded case studies. The closing section engages with “the future of vulnerability”, as a hermeneutic, epistemological, and critical-normative perspective to be deployed beyond the domain of global crises and emergencies.The volume is primarily intended as a reference for scholars in the human, social and health sciences. The accessible structure and plain language of the chapters make it also a valuable didactic resource for graduate courses in philosophy, the social sciences and public health.
Vulnerability Revisited: Leaving No One Behind in Research (SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance)
by Doris Schroeder Roger Chennells Kate Chatfield Hazel Partington Joshua Kimani Gillian Thomson Joyce Adhiambo Odhiambo Leana Snyders Collin LouwOpen access. This open-access book discusses vulnerability and the protection-inclusion dilemma of including those who suffer from serious poverty, severe stigma, and structural violence in research. Co-written with representatives from indigenous peoples in South Africa and sex workers in Nairobi, the authors come down firmly on the side of inclusion. In the spirit of leaving no one behind in research, the team experimented with data collection methods that prioritize research participant needs over researcher needs. This involved foregoing the collection of personal data and community researchers being involved in all stages of the research. In the process, the term ‘vulnerability’ was illuminated across significant language barriers as it was defined by indigenous peoples and sex workers themselves. The book describes a potential alternative to exclusion from research that moves away from traditional research methods. By ensuring that the research is led by vulnerable groups for vulnerable groups, it offers an approach that fosters trust and collaboration with benefits for the community researchers, the wider community as well as research academics. Those living in low-income settings, in dire situations that are summarized with the term ‘vulnerability’ know best what their problems are and which priorities they have. To exclude them from research for their own protection is a patronizing approach which insinuates that researchers and research ethics committees know best. The team from this book have shown that minimally risky and minimally burdensome research tailored towards the needs of highly marginalized and stigmatized communities can be scientifically valuable as well as inclusive and equitable. I congratulate them. Prof. Klaus Leisinger, President Global Values Alliance, Former personal advisor to Kofi Annan on corporate responsibility
Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual (Law, Society, Policy)
by Martha Albertson FinemanVulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms. Beginning with the corporeal body, the theory argues we are inevitably and constantly dependent on social institutions that are generated (and ideally monitored) through law. Accordingly, vulnerability theory argues for a state attentive to the needs of the universally 'vulnerable subject'. Based on lectures at Trinity College Dublin that focused on four foundational concepts, this book highlights how vulnerability theory differs from individualistic liberal frameworks. Calling for a reorientation of law toward a collective responsibility-based approach, it is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social justice, and sociolegal scholarship.
Vulnerability and Human Rights (Essays on Human Rights #1)
by Bryan S. TurnerThe mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights.Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.
Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work (Gender in Law, Culture, and Society)
by Martha Albertson Fineman Jonathan W. FinemanThis book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship. It is based on the premise that both employer and employee are vulnerable to various social, economic, and political forces, although differently so. It demonstrates how in responding to those complementary institutional relationships of employer and employee the state unequally and inequitably favors employers over employees. Several chapters included in this collection also consider how the state shapes, creates and maintains through law the social identities of employer and employee and how that legal regime operates as the allocation of power and privilege. This unique and fundamental role of the state in defining the employment relationship profoundly affects the respective abilities and degree of resiliency of actual employers and employees. Other chapters explore how attention to the respective vulnerability and resilience of those who do and those who direct work in assessing the employment relationship can raise fundamental questions of social justice and suggest new avenues for critical engagement with labor and employment law. Collectively, these pieces articulate a framework for imaging what would constitute an appropriately "Responsive State" in the employment context and how those interested in social justice might begin to use the concepts of vulnerability and resilience in their arguments.
Vulnerability in Police Custody: Police decision-making and the appropriate adult safeguard
by Roxanna DehaghaniThis book provides a nuanced and timely contribution to the question of vulnerability in police custody. It addresses the implementation of the appropriate adult safeguard in respect of adult suspects and explores police decision-making in this context. Drawing on empirical research carried out in England, the work takes a socio-legal approach to examine how and why police custody officers implement or not the appropriate adult safeguard. The book’s core arguments are addressed within three parts. Part I examines how vulnerability is constructed philosophically and practically, firstly within the broader literature, thereafter at common law and in statute, and finally by police custody officers. Part 2 discusses how vulnerability is identified and how decisions are made in response to vulnerability. Part 3 critically assesses the theoretical understandings of police decision-making and criminal justice. Here it is argued that current theories on police decision-making hold explanatory power yet have significant shortcomings in relation to vulnerability and the appropriate adult safeguard. The book thus presents new theoretical insights and, on the basis of these insights, asserts that the current regime of regulation must be reconsidered, while police compliance may only be ensured if vulnerability is radically reconceptualised.
Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics)
by Christine StraehleVulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ethicists and public policy theorists working on instances of vulnerability in specific contexts. This volume offers new and innovative work by Joel Anderson, Carla Bagnoli, Samia Hurst, Catriona Mackenzie and Christine Straehle, who together provide a discussion of the concept of vulnerability from the perspective of individual autonomy. The exchanges among authors will help show the heuristic value of vulnerability that is being developed in the context of liberal political theory and moral philosophy. The book also illustrates how applying the concept of vulnerability to some of the most pressing moral questions in applied ethics can assist us in making moral judgments. This highly innovative and interdisciplinary approach will help those grappling with questions of vulnerability in medical ethics—both theorists and practitioners—by providing principles along which to decide hard cases.
Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law (SpringerBriefs in Law)
by Jonathan HerringThis book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat adults and children in the same way as the child liberationists claim. However, the basis of that claim is not that children are more competent than we traditionally given them credit for, but rather that adults are far less competent than we give them credit for. It is commonly assumed that children are more vulnerable. That is why we need to have a special legal regime for children. Children cannot have all the same rights as adults and need especial protect from harms. While in the 1970s “child liberationists” mounted a sustained challenge to this image, arguing that childhood was a form of slavery and that the assumption that children lacked capacity was unsustainable. This movement has significantly fallen out of favour, particularly given increasing awareness of child abuse and the multiple ways that children can be harmed at the hands of adults. This book will explore the concept of vulnerability, the way it used to undermine the interests of children and our assumptions that adults are not vulnerable in the same way that children are. It will argue that a law based around mutual vulnerability can provide an approach which avoids the need to distinguish adults and children.
Vulnerability, the Accused, and the Criminal Justice System: Multi-jurisdictional Perspectives (Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure)
by Roxanna Dehaghani Samantha Fairclough Lore MergaertsThis book is concerned with the vulnerability of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings and the extent to which the vulnerable accused can effectively participate in the criminal process. Commencing with an exploration of how vulnerability is defined and identified, the collection examines and analyses how vulnerability manifests and is addressed at the police station and in court, addressing both child and adult accused persons. Leading and emerging scholars, along with practitioners with experience working in the field, explore and unpack the human rights and procedural implications of suspect and defendant vulnerability and examine how their needs are supported or disregarded. Drawing upon different disciplinary approaches and a range of analyses – doctrinal, theoretical and empirical – this book offers unique insights into the vulnerability and treatment of the criminal accused. In bringing together a diverse range of perspectives, the book offers key insights into the recognition of and responses to vulnerability among suspect and defendant populations in criminal justice systems across European jurisdictions. The book will be a valuable resource for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in how vulnerable suspects and defendants are protected throughout the criminal process, and those working in the areas of law, criminology, sociology, human rights and psychology.