ANÁLISIS DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD CRIMINAL DE LAS PERSONAS JURÍDICAS EN LA LEGISLACIÓN PENAL ECUATORIANA

Abstract

Due to the quivk development of science and modern and sophisticated technology, being an era of globalized cyber world, companies in today's society, have acquired enormous importance in the multinational economic development and in the same way also has innovative forms of infringement using these companies, being such crimes often unpunished; what became necessary in the legislature to regulate their criminal actions and impose sanctions for legal persons who are established in specific cases in Comprehensive Organic Penal Code, although throughout history have been applied penalties natural persons, following a criminal act determined by law as typical and unlawful since this required that the perpetrator of the unjust act will and conscience; because in this paper a brief analysis to know why started talking about criminal liability of legal persons, the need for traditional criminal law makes rethink their dogmas to the current reality is carried out, considering that degree of damaging nowadays does not stem from an individual but corporate, or rather bodies, legal entities with an increasingly complex organization where there the division of labor and the role and compliance with certain roles and with great capacity power of decision