El femicidio en la legislación penal ecuatoriana

Abstract

In the research topic: "Femicide in Ecuadorian criminal legislation", a socio-legal study of the crime of femicide in Ecuador was carried out, and a study on the criminal law of femicide in Mexico and Colombia, which showed that violence Gender affects the women of the three countries as well as the rest of the world, claiming lives on a daily basis that causes the emotional and psychological alteration of both the family of the victim and the victimizer. Femicide is considered a problem that is increasing. One of the causes of this type of crime is believed to be due to the wrong behavior of men to believe themselves superior to women, being part of a culture rooted in society. In Ecuador, as in Mexico and Colombia, the crime of femicide is included within the legal norms, as a way to stop and punish gender violence; Most cases of femicide are caused by the victim's partner or ex-partner. With the present study, society in general is made aware of the serious situation of which a large part of women are victims, and it is intended that the female gender knows the rights protected by the Constitution and the regulations in our country. country, therefore must denounce any fact of violence, before these abuses end their live.