Análisis sobre la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en el Código Integral Penal del Ecuador

Abstract

This research treaties with the analysis of the criminal responsibility of legal individuals of private law in Ecuador, examining the possible deficiencies that exist in the regulations of the Integrated Criminal Code. We focus on the difficulties involved in determining the individual criminal responsibility of those involved in economic crime; in the procedural and substantive deficiencies that can be provoked for the correct application of the regulations, as well as the analysis of a prevention model as an help to avoiding to continue committing crimes in our country. Faced with the possible deficiencies of the current legislation that affect the criminal responsibility of legal persons in private law, we saw the need to propose a reform proposal. With this we pretend to generate possible solutions - from our perspective - applicable to the current regulations. Our position in that sense has a clear balance, without placing a specific weight on one side of the balance.