#self-denounce

• To self-denounce — To present oneself on one's own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or competent judicial authorities to confess and assume the commission of one's own crime or illicit act, before it is known or discovered by the state. This structural procedural act is carried out by the perpetrator out of remorse or to benefit from substantial reductions in the sentence provided by law.
• Self-denounced — Having denounced oneself voluntarily and on one's own initiative before judicial authorities or criminal investigation bodies for committing one's own crime, before the act was discovered by state organs. In a procedural sense, it describes the structural status of a perpetrator who resorted to a full confession to benefit from clemency or impunity.
• Self-denouncer — A person who denounces themselves before the law, bringing to the attention of authorities a crime they personally committed or participated in; (rarely) containing or expressing a self-denunciation. This structural status implies an active and unilateral manifestation of assistance provided to justice before the ex officio notification of investigation organs.