Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking From Liability The European Approach /

• Main Author: Muraszkiewicz, Julia Maria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
• Subjects: Victimology.; Transnational crime.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Crime prevention.; Social justice.; Transnational Crime.; Human Rights and Crime .; Crime Prevention.; Human Rights.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law. The legislation remains vague and potentially inadequate to recognise...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Trafficking
• 3. Rationale for the Non-Liability Principle
• 4. Non-Liability in European and International Law
• 5. Dissecting Article 26 of the 2005 Council of Europe Convention
• 6. Dissecting Article 8 of the 2011 EU Human Trafficking Directive
• 7. How States Have Implemented the Non-Liability Provision
• 8. What Thwarts the Use of the Non-Liability Provision? - 9. An Alternative Provision. .