Consecuencias de la violencia intrafamiliar en los grupos prioritarios: niños, niñas y adolescentes.

Abstract

Domestic violence in Ecuador is a problem that very often occurs within Ecuadorian families, children and adolescents are within the vulnerable group that suffer from abuse, assault and mistreatment by their parents. It is accompanied by some elements that in one way or another cause a problem in the development and integrity of the minor. The convenience of mitigating domestic violence is based on the need for the Ecuadorian justice to be effective and prompt in defending the rights of victims of violence in the family nucleus, not only by applying a sanction, but also by establishing programs of specialized protection that manage to reduce this type of discomfort towards minors. In this way, that comprehensive reparations are established that protect the best interests of the minor. In our country, from the last codification of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, the different types of intrafamily violence are recognized, in addition, this type of crimes with their respective sanctions have been configured to protect the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador. Hence the object of this research, which is the analysis of Ecuadorian criminal law through the analysis of scientific articles applying the analytical and exegetical method, in addition to the comparative method within Peruvian legislation. Finally, it is concluded that despite the existence of the corresponding sanctions for these crimes, they continue to occur frequently in many of the families and the consequences continue to be the same described in the criminal type.