CAMPOVERDE NIVICELA, Luis Johao; ORELLANA IZURIETA, William Gabriel    SANCHEZ CUENCA, Melina Estefanía. The concept and functions of action as an element of theory of crime. []. , 10, 2, pp. 318-322.   02--2018. ISSN 2218-3620.

Action as the category of crime constitutes its most important element. Criminal law is only concerned with human actions that are criminally relevant, those that are expressions of the will and that produce a socially unwanted result. The action constitutes in this way in a limit of application of the theory of the crime, since it must be discarded of its study any expression or participation of the human being in which there has been no will. Every action necessarily implies the determination of a purpose, goal or end; to think otherwise would be to appreciate the world in a blind way since it is impossible to act without purpose. Action thus develops in the human mind with the proposition of this purpose, and subsequently becomes manifest in the objective world.

: Action; crime; will; purpose; finalism.

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