Minimum criminal intervention in trifle crimes in the canton of Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

This study is conducted to analyze the applicability of the principle of minimum criminal intervention in Trifle crimes by justice operators and its impact on the procedural burden of criminal units in the province of Azuay, specifically in the Cuenca canton. For this, the study will be carried out in several phases that allow, in the first place, to provide a theoretical foundation in accordance with the doctrine, examine the statistics of prosecution of Trifle crimes and the procedural burden of the Cuenca criminal units, specify the alternative processes of solution of viable conflicts in application of the Principle of Minimum Criminal Intervention to, finally, determine the incidence of the complaints of trifle or minor crimes on the procedural burden of the flagrante delicto criminal units of the province of Azuay, specifically in the Cuenca canton . From the methodological point of view, it is a mixed study (qualitative and quantitative), descriptive, explanatory, transversal that will conduct a legal analysis and apply the inductive-deductive method.