crime in other countries.?

Question

If an American citizen commit a crime in other countries, is he/she criminal in USA also? And will be charged for it in USA? Or even sent to that country? International law?

Answer 1

It depends on the nature of the crime, i.e. a felony as opposed to a small violation. However capital crimes are tried by the country in which the crime took place, and if a person tries to avoid being punished and flees to another country, we have extradition treaties with many (but not all) countries. Minor crimes are usually dismissed but the person is declared person non grata and expelled from the country. Crimes against the state are usually tried within that country and the person may or may not be returned to his native land for prison. For example drug cases in Turkey are punished by the Turkish government, Look at the molestation charges against Gary Glitter in Cambodia....England may attempt to help him, but if he is convicted, he does the time in Cambodia. The French police grind their teeth at American tourists that could be charged but are protected by the embassy. The world wide thought is if you break our laws, then you pay the same price as do our own citizens but the US manages to get many people off. At this moment there are 8 US citizens (all eight are from Taiwan but are now citizens of the US) being held as spies in China...but it is only house-arrest...if it were a Chinese person, they would be imprisoned, tried and if convicted, might be punished by death. Many countries are lenient towards foreign nations...remember the flogging fiasco in Singapore...even Clinton and the Pope interfered with the law by pleading for mercy....If you do the crime, you should do the time...ANYWHERE.

Answer 2

If an American Citizen commits a crime in another country, they are to stand trial and serve their sentence in that country. They do not do any time here in the US for the crime, but it does go on their record. So they are a criminal in this country as well. And depending upon the crime, they may not see the US again in their lifetime, for other countries are much stiffer on crime than the US is. Maybe that is why the US has the highest crime rate per capita. . .

Answer 3

depending on the situation or country......depending on the state that yo are from....many countries will NOT send you back if they belive that you will get the death penelty.

Sometimes the country might ask for the criminal back and the other country will gladly send them back...usually thats for closer amongst the city or state that a crime might have been commited. However, if you were to leave the states and were clean then comitted a crime elsewhere, 99% of the time the country will give you a trial there and the states or any other country will let you ROT there. Unless again, the punishment for your crime is inhumane.....such as in some asian countries they will kill you for dealing drugs. Most times the embassy will get involved and get you back because the US drug las are not that strict and they will fight to get you back.

So basically, it depends on the crime.

Answer 4

The usa laws is bound by each state, which means there will be different laws to each states. So if you commit crime outside of US it depends on which state you will go as each states laws were practically different.

Answer 5

it depends on the nature of crime as well
but he/she will be convict in America and ill be trailed in Amercia on the basis of being alien in that country hmmm it is not necessary that international law is applied on that person ...