自首

じしゅ
surrender
give oneself up

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じしゅ【自首】

◇ → 自首する

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じしゅ【自首】

self-surrender; giving oneself up; turning oneself in.

～する surrender (voluntarily) [turn oneself in] to the police; give oneself up to the police.

●ひき逃げ犯人は翌日母親に伴われて自首してきた. The hit-and-run driver, accompanied by his mother, came and turned himself in the next morning.

●人に自首を促す urge sb to turn himself in to the police.