Análisis de la eficacia de las medidas de protección vigentes en contra del maltrato infantil.

Abstract

The present academic research work is about an analysis carried out to the normative dispositions regarding the effectiveness of the current protection measures against child abuse. Child abuse is a real and current social problem in our society. This has only built a first link that triggers the derailment of a series of young people, who in their childhood while facing the problem of abuse, introspectively suffer serious damage not only physical but emotional, which over time until their death. maturity degenerate into social consequences that have repercussions on other generalized problems; such as robbery, delinquency, and the toxic and psychosocial illnesses of the case, according to the various criminological theories on juvenile delinquency commented on by Carlos Vázquez González. In accordance with the provisions of Article 44 of the Constitution, the State must formulate measures of action; for the prevention, correction and condemnation of acts of violence and abuse against minors. The State becomes the main guarantor of the safety of infants, which, according to the Ecuadorian Magna Carta, is a priority group. This academic work aims to carry out a historical journey of the evolution of the rights of infants in relation to well-being and legal opposition to violence and abuse, as well as; collect the legal protection provisions for the case, and within the legal framework identify the reason for the in application or ineffectiveness of prevention measures against child abuse. And, based on this, reformulate the legal order of the case according to the current needs in said matter.