FEMICIDE IN ECUADOR: BACKGROUND, CONTROVERSIES AND THE NEED TO ESTABLISH PUBLIC POLICIES

Abstract

Violence against women has been recognized as a legal-social problem until today. This research collected one of the most extreme forms of gender violence called femicide, composed by a legal part, as well as by criminological statistical data on this criminal type within the Ecuadorian legislation. The results demonstrated the alarming impunity and the lack of prevention and public policies to help mitigate this form of criminality. The research also demonstrated the ambivalence between the terms femicide and feminicide, which although it works as a positive element in the denunciation and allows the visualization of the murders of women that occur for gender reasons, it does not solve the problem. The type of research of this work is non-experimental, based on the qualitative approach with descriptive level. The methods used were inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic, historical-comparative and legal dogmatic. Through this research the authors considered the need to establish public policies to allow prevention, as well as the effective application of recognized rights and the existence of effective judicial protection and legal certainty within the crime.