Concept in Definition ABC

Voluntary disclosure of someone to an authority and in which they reveal a criminal act and its perpetrator

We use the concept of betraying it to designate that voluntary disclosure that someone makes before a authority competent and in which he counts, reveals a criminal act and at the Author or authors thereof.

Confession of something kept secret

We must also say that the term is used to designate any revelation in which someone voluntarily confesses something that he knows and that he kept secret. It may be a personal matter or a morally reprehensible fact.

Involuntary demonstration of an intention

On the other hand the word is used to refer to the demonstration involuntary of some intention.

Now, from the references made, we must say that the word is mostly used to account for that revelation that someone makes in front of the policeman or an authority denouncing a crime and who were its authors.

Witness of a crime or protagonist of it

This revelation can occur after witnessing a crime casually, that is, one is walking down the street, witnesses a criminal act and its cause, and then later goes to the street.

Justice to tell it.
Or failing that, someone can expose a criminal act that he was part of but decides to confess after being arrested by him and to run the risk to go to prison.

The figure of the repentant or informer allows solving crimes in exchange for a reduction of sentence

This figure is judicially called as repentant and is embodied precisely by the one who participated in a crime but arranges with justice his acquittal or a reduction in the sentence that awaits him in exchange for exposing those who committed the wrongdoing with him and giving details of how the crime was perpetrated. illicit. It is also possible that the repentant is called an informer.

To the repentant or informants, the justice offers police protection in addition to an agreement to improve their judicial situation because After betraying his gang, his life may take certain risks since they will consider him a traitor and surely they plan to attack its integrity and that of your loved ones.

Given the fantastic increase that has occurred in crime organized throughout the world, the laws of many countries have taken care to create the aforementioned figure of the informer or repentant and to develop programs that provide protection to them in order to encourage criminals to decide to stay away from the wrong path and reveal the crimes they commit together with their partners in crime.

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