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Violations of rights and principles arising from the typification of the femicide crime in Ecuador

Abstract:

The criminal sphere limits the punitive power that the State has, delimiting its sphere of action, one of the ways through which this IUS PUNIENDI is limited is through the typification of behaviors that are considered crimes, in this way the legislative power has entered into the catalog of crimes COIP in the criminal laws, in its article 141 the crime of femicide, a rule that was published published in the Supplement to the Official Registry, Year I- No. 180, Quito, dated February 10, 2014 came into effect on August 8, 2014, thus being applicable in the Ecuadorian criminal sphere, but with the classification, its weighting of various principles supra constitutions, constitutional, penal and criminal dogmatic applicable to the case, has been omitted. So much so that within the present study we will be able to weigh individually and briefly the principles injured by this criminal type and in the same way the consequences that this entails.