El femicidio el último escalón de la violencia

Femicide is a social phenomenon, whose legal implications have a great connotation for the welfare of citizens. For this reason the objective was to describe quantitative data of this type of violence that is increasing in society, through an analysis of percentages of cases found in the country, to contribute with recommendations for the State to improve the strategy for face this criminal problem. The descriptive methodology was applied. The statistics of femicide in Ecuador showed a growth in 2017, whose tendency was maintained in the last five years, most of the victims lived on the coast, in urban areas, being the cause of death the ex-survivor, because women they were separated or divorced from those who perpetrated the crime. Conclusion: the machista thought of the Ecuadorian society generates as a negative effect the discrimination and violence against women in some socio-demographic sectors of Ecuador, becoming a wake-up call for the governments and the community, therefore, the revision made about femicide is a social problem that is increasing and that the collaboration of society and the State is needed to promote a cultural change.El femicidio es un fenómeno social, cuya implicaciones jurídicas tienen gran connotación para el bienestar de la ciudadanía. Por este motivo se planteó el objetivo de describir mediante datos cuantitativos este tipo de violencia que va en aumento en la sociedad, a través de un análisis de porcentajes de casos encontrados en el país, para contribuir con recomendaciones para que el Estado mejore la estrategia para enfrentar esta problemática de carácter penal. Se aplicó la metodología descriptiva. Las estadísticas de femicidio en el Ecuador evidenciaron un crecimiento en el 2017, cuya tendencia se mantuvo en los últimos cinco años, la mayoría de las víctimas vivían en la costa, en zonas urbanas, siendo el causante de la muerte el exconviviente, porque las mujeres se encontraban separadas o divorciadas de quienes perpetraron el crimen.