Criminal offenses through social networks

Abstract

Currently, social networks allow people to learn and interact with others directly and immediately. Through them, personal interrelationships are produced cybernetically, without the need for physical contact, and even, it is not necessary to know each other. This leads to the massive use of social networks and to the fact that several subjects spend a lot of time browsing through electronic devices such as cell phones and computers in their vast majority.

When entering social networks, users provide information of a personal nature and are in a state of violation of their image, photographs, information and personal data found in the profiles of the different existing social networks, therefore, it allows others people, who commit crimes through social networks, which, for the most part, go unpunished for not being able to identify the author of a criminal offense. The objective of this project is to determine the need to determine the need to incorporate into the Comprehensive Criminal Organic Code, what refers to the infractions committed through social networks. The methodology that we propose is descriptive with a qualitative approach, which was carried out through a bibliographic review and scientific journals, in order to obtain the information. we accessed several databases, such as: Scielo, Scopus, Google Scholar, Dialnet and Redalyc; With the data obtained, we used an analysis of a socio-legal nature within the Ecuadorian legal system. In conclusion, we establish the need to incorporate into the Ecuadorian legal system, a special regulation that regulates criminal offenses that are committed through social networks, so that they do not go unpunished and the perpetrator of the crime receives a sanction.