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There is at least one. I answered according to the Tzitz Eliezer (as far as I can understand how he holds, I certainly don’t speak for him and I am not a posek, etc., etc.)
If you want a less halachic and more hashkafic answer which I believe conforms to that opinion, then here is an elaboration. (ENTIRELY MY OWN AND SHOULD BE IGNORED BY ALL PIOUS JEWS, ETC.)
If what you have done is something which would be appropriately “punished” by the civil authorities, then it is a kind of “civil kaporah” to turn yourself in and “serve your time”. If, on the other hand, it is something which is punished disproportionately (e.g.: you sold crack cocaine, an offense for which the mandatory sentencing is far in excess of the same offense if the cocaine was in powdered form) then I would suggest that you are an auto-moser.
Note also that it is pertinent whether you are currently hiding from law enforcement, or whether your crime could be discovered. If neither is true, then I would adopt a more stringent view and suggest that you should *not* surrender yourself. Instead you should undertake a personal kaporah.
DISCLAIMER: The foregoing is the vapid meandering of an am haaretz. Repeating it or acting on it in any way is certainly an error.