the role of the Public Defender's Office as a vector of transformation and social emancipation in the light of the sociology of absences and emergencies.
access to justice; Public Defender's Office; vulnerability; sociology of absences and emergencies.
This research aims to demonstrate that the Public Defender's Office, as a permanent institution of access to justice for the hypossufficient, in the scope of reducing criminal vulnerability, can be used as an instrument of transformation and social emancipation, unveiling and combating state actions and omissions that, in the scope of the criminal process, seek to reinforce the current paradigm of social invisibility, in the light of the sociology of absences and emergencies. Thus, it seeks first to identify the most diverse concepts of access to justice, their obstacles and limitations to the realization of justice, in addition to the evolution through the waves of renewal. It also presents the Public Defender's Office as a constitutional model, in its historical aspect, attributions, classifications, members with their guarantees and prerogatives. Finally, it highlights vulnerability in all its aspects, especially in the criminal one, through the Public Defender's Office, and its legitimacy based on the sociology of absences and emergencies.