Violation of the principle of celerity, evidenced in cases of psychological violence in the Santo Domingo Canton.

Abstract

Psychological abuse constitutes any conduct that is detrimental to mental health, by acts of disturbance, threat, manipulation, blackmail, humiliation, isolation, surveillance, harassment or control of beliefs, decisions or actions against women or members of the family. This produces a serious problem in the victims of this type of violence, both by the abuse itself and by the delay in the dispatch of the justice operators, which violate the principle of speed in the investigation and its processing, demanding the practice of diligences complex, extensive and inconsequential, so it is necessary to implement special procedures and expedited in the trial and punishment, to comply with the provisions of articles 81 and l68.6 of the Constitution.