CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS IN ECUADOR
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The work analyzes the legal arguments about the criminal responsibility of legal persons, based on what is established in the Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code (COIP), which typifies criminal behavior not only against legal representatives or attorneys of persons. but against it directly, thus modernizing the Ecuadorian criminal legal system. The objective is to analyze the behavior and criminal liability of legal persons. The applied methodology has been bibliographical, qualitative, non-experimental, also using historical-legal, legal-doctrinal, legal-comparative methods, content analysis and an open survey questionnaire. Obtaining as a result that 52% of those surveyed agree that the criminal liability of legal persons has been incorporated into the Comprehensive Criminal Organic Code. Concluding that the socialization of the criminal responsibility of legal persons to all employees is required, as a method of preventing crimes of legal persons in Ecuador.
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