Ineficacia de la normativa penal en delitos contra la vida cometidos por adolescentes.

Abstract

The study of the ineffectiveness of criminal law in crimes against life committed by adolescents generates uncertainty, legal insecurity, discrimination, and impunity for the victim. A significantly high percentage of violations of human rights—fundamental, constitutional, and conventional—of both direct and indirect victims is determined, resulting in impunity proposed by the administration of justice in cases where the offender is an adolescent. Thereby, the hypothesis put forward is verified. By observing a strict analysis of the negative effects of the ineffectiveness of criminal law, the aim is to highlight the erroneous actions of judges supported by a legal framework that does not meet the correct standards for criminal law within our Ecuadorian legislation, which is the Code of Childhood and Adolescence that supplements the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, where judicial decisions, in turn, lack effectiveness in terms of delivering justice to the victim.