Active repentance - a way of release from criminal liability according to the legislation of the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

Release of criminal responsibility represents a real asset with a rich legal anti-crime potential, but the full exploitation of its entire yield can be possible only in the presence of extensive and detailed knowledge about this institution obtained as a result of its investigations in different aspects. The following will be addressed one of the institution's procedures for release of criminal responsibility under the penal code of the Republic of Moldova, being about the person's repentance guilty of committing an offence.