Is it immoral to deport criminals back to their country of origin for a crime committed in your country (as opposed to extradition to face charges back to their country of origin).
On one hand if the origin country does not charge them with anything, they are essentially not being punished. However is punishment the main objective, or should it be protecting society (in which case a deportation protects the society of the deporting country). The problem following from that, would it be fair on the origin country to have to deal with this new criminal.
The reason I am asking this is that in my state of Western Australia we have deported a paedophile back to the UK before he served his full sentence. This will of course protect our society, but the obvious question is, what effect would this have on the UK society. When the UK protested, someone pointed out that the UK plans to one of the child killers (ie they killed a child, and were a child themselves when they committed the act) of James Bolger to Australia (even though he is a UK citizen).
Also we were planning to deport a Chinese citizen with an expired visa before he could face criminal charges for rape (this decision has since been changed).
The morality of deporting criminals
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The morality of deporting criminals
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For most cases, involving jail time of up to five years or so, convict them, so they have a record and can never legally get back in, then punt them, so you don't have to pay for their incarceration. The way the law works, a rapist of pedo would be back on the streets in 3 to 5 years on good behavior anyway, yet has a high risk of reoffending. Other criminals, like murderers, should never be allowed to go free, till time is served, then deport them.
There could be a compassionate provision that balances the nature and circumstances of the crime against the harm to society; but not applied to crimes like fraud.
It may not be the nicest thing to do to another country, but the criminal was one of their own. If the information is passed on to the other country's police, they can keep an eye on him. It's not fair to other legal and law abiding immigrants waiting in line that a criminal be taking up space in the quota count. Certainly, there are enough indigenous dangers to society without going through the expense of importing them.
There could be a compassionate provision that balances the nature and circumstances of the crime against the harm to society; but not applied to crimes like fraud.
It may not be the nicest thing to do to another country, but the criminal was one of their own. If the information is passed on to the other country's police, they can keep an eye on him. It's not fair to other legal and law abiding immigrants waiting in line that a criminal be taking up space in the quota count. Certainly, there are enough indigenous dangers to society without going through the expense of importing them.