Treachery is a factor that aggravates the responsibility of the person who commits a crime.
Treachery is a notion that, in the field of law , is used with reference to what an individual does to guarantee the completion of a crime against another subject without there being a risk for him or her. It is, therefore, a circumstance that aggravates the responsibility of the person who commits the crime.
Treachery is associated with acting on the safe side. It involves the use of methods or means that ensure the crime by preventing the victim from successfully defending himself or a third party from intervening. That is why treachery is considered an aggravating circumstance when judging the fact in question.
Use of the notion of treachery
It is common for the notion of treachery to be used when the victim is defenseless and the criminal takes advantage of this state . Take the case of a sexual offender who abuses a child. Due to his psychological and physical condition, the child is in a situation of inferiority compared to the adult: he is not in a position to defend himself. The attacker, in this way, is guaranteed the completion of the crime without risk. In this case, the abuse is aggravated by treachery.
When the criminal stalks his victim and ambushes him, it can also be referred to as treachery. This occurs if a kidnapper monitors a person's movements for several weeks until he or she is sure that he or she can successfully capture him or her.
Another form of treachery is linked to the intention to hide the aggression so as not to be discovered. Suppose a man poisons his partner to collect insurance, by placing a few drops of a toxic product in her drink. This action could be classified as treachery.
The assassination of Julius Caesar is often mentioned as an example of treachery.
The assassination of Julius Caesar
If we focus on classical criminal doctrine, we will find that one of the most common examples of treachery that usually appear is the assassination of Julius Caesar .
Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio , generally known as Brutus , took advantage of his friendship with the Roman politician to carry out his plan to take his life, knowing that he would not suspect him. Precisely, he relied on the security provided by the trust that Julius Caesar placed in him to lead the conspiracy that ended in fatality.
Allegations of treachery
With respect to the forms, instruments or situations that a person can rely on to guarantee the success of their future crimes, the doctrine distinguishes the following three cases of treacherous murder , also known simply as cases of treachery :
* treasonous or proditory crime : this is a crime that must be preceded by a process of observation, cautious waiting ( stalking ) or concealment , that is, the offender hides for a time. The term proditorial is defined as something that belongs to treason , that includes it or is related to it, and that is why it is normal for this type of treachery to be seen in the homonymous type of homicide;
* exploitation, when the victim is defenseless : as stated in previous examples, the criminal takes advantage of his victim's inability to defend himself;
* insidious procedure : a crime that the author himself seeks to hide, to make it look like an accident. The most common example in this case is the use of poison to commit a murder.
proper name
As a proper name, " Alevosía " is the title of an album and a song by Luis Eduardo Aute , a well-known Spanish singer-songwriter. This is a work that he wrote and published in 1995, on which Santigo Feliú and Silvio Rodríguez also worked.
Aute is an internationally famous musician, although he also has other talents and has explored other areas, such as acting, poetry and film direction.