Effect of the doer's confession for the determination of the punishment Cover Image

Значение на самопризнанието на дееца за определяне на наказанието
Effect of the doer's confession for the determination of the punishment

Author(s): Petya Mitreva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Public Law, Sociology, Higher Education , Criminology
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Doer’s confession; Criminal cases; Punishment

Summary/Abstract: The effect of the doer’s confession in criminal cases adjudicated under the order of the brief court investigation or settlement of the case by an agreement is statutory lowering the punishment. This procedural effect raises the question about the material value of the confession which has to be presented trough the point of two purposes of the punishment and the basic principles of imposing a determined sanction on a particular doer. Current article is focused on the material legal contents of the confession as a mitigating circumstance and legal grounds for applying art. 55 of Penal Code, which allows the substitution of the statutory sanction with a lighter one.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 50-69
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian