Each person sooner or later, but does something this in his life, after which he can feel guilty for what he has done, a sense of remorse. It comes when the person realizes the very fact of the deed committed by him, regretting it. Rejecting the motive, according to which there was absolutely action, the repentant person unconsciously, but returns it to self-consciousness. The individual soon recognizes what he has done, feels the conflicting meaning of the incident. I am ready to assume responsibility for the consequences of an act.
Active repentance
One of the main forms of remorse is active repentance. It is a voluntary act of a person who has committed a certain crime. The main goal of such actions is to smooth out the harm done, reduce or completely eliminate the consequences of the act. In this case, the individual informs about the incident the law enforcement agencies.
Such sincere remorse is able to soften the measures applied to the person under criminal responsibility.
Classification of active repentance
In the theory of criminal law distinguish such types of active repentance:
- Turnout with confession.
- Help in solving the crime.
- Voluntary compensation for damage caused by the actions of a person.
- Elimination of the harm caused.
- Prevention of consequences that have a negative character of the crime committed.
There are objective and subjective signs of active repentance.
Objective actions include those specified by law. They form part of the repentance related to the active.
This feature is easily identifiable. As a rule, it is fixed in the legislation in the form of conditions for the application of incentive rules to the repentant.
Such a person can be recognized as a person who does not consider his actions to be wrong, but does acts that are required by law.
For all kinds of active repentance, the general objective attributes are the social usefulness of the committed acts, their activity.
Subjective attributes include: a certain form of behavior, a type of active action that aims to achieve goals that are useful to the public.
Active repentance in such countries as Latvia, Mongolia, CIS countries (not including Kyrgyzstan) is used as the main reason for the release of a penitent from criminal responsibility.
Legislation of the CIS countries exempts from such responsibility a person who first committed a crime that carries a small burden, but on condition that the person has volunteered on a voluntary basis. In doing so, he contributed to the investigation and further disclosure of the crime.
It is worth noting that any sincere repentance bears in itself a conscientious attitude towards the committed crime. In this regard, the perpetrator himself creates for himself the circumstances that mitigate his criminal liability.
Later, repentance sometimes does not have a benefit that words of repentance, spoken at the right moment, could bring. But this kind of remorse is useful for the guilty himself, for his self-consciousness. If he managed to endure a useful lesson from what happened and he feels remorse, then he is ready to change himself for the better.
The problem of repentance
It is worth noting that this problem arises in every state, regardless of its level of development. But in every country the level of its manifestation is different. The person's readiness for repentance depends on his level of self-knowledge, his willingness to assume a certain responsibility. The problem of repentance is that in today's world of stress, money and the race for success, some people forget to tidy up their inner content, reconsider their attitude to many spiritual things.
So, repentance, whatever it is, always carries a positive result, first of all, for the most repentant.