#self-denunciation

• Self-denunciation — The action by which a person presents themselves on their own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or judicial authorities to confess a crime or an illicit act that they personally committed or participated in, before it is discovered. In structural procedural terms, it represents a cause for sentence reduction or impunity according to the penal code.
• Self-denunciation — The act of self-denouncing and its result; a self-denunciation made voluntarily before criminal authorities before the deed is known to them. This act represents an official manifestation of acknowledging guilt and produces major mitigating structural effects in setting the final sentence amount.