La castración química como pena accesoria en el delito sexual de violación contra menores de edad

Abstract

In the chronology of the history of humanity, castration in humans has had a leading role at different times, which were applied in various contexts from a practice for artistic purposes to being used as a penalty for people who violated a important law, in the present In the investigation, the qualitative method has been used since documentation and information gathering have come to determine that the progress of science has developed a new technique that arrived from traditional castration, that being chemical castration is defined as a medical procedure, the purpose is to reduce the sexual appetite in the person who gets in this process, unlike the traditional castration, this is not too hurtful and does not involve the removal of the genitals since the doctor uses special drugs, which is why in the comparative law the the power in the world have incorporated chemical castration into their regulations mainly against pedophiles, countries such as the United States, Russia, Germany, South Korea and others, it’s necessary to mention the huge amount of the crime of rape to minors in the country of Ecuador, this has become a problem that resonates in our penal system, therefore, the low efficiency of the measures imposed to date against this crime being evident, the possibility of incorporating the Chemical castration in Ecuadorian legislation.