Denmark has unveiled a deportation reform under which foreigners who are convicted of serious crimes, like aggravated assault and rape, would be expelled.
Yes, you do miss a lot. It is not stated whether the deportation would replace the prison sentence or be added on top.
Let’s say it’s added on top - in our modern understanding, after serving a sentence, an offender is considered rehabilitated. Why would you deport rehabilitated people? Also it is not consistent with any principle of equal treatment because offenders without danish citizenship would get punished harder than danish citizens for the same crime.
If the deportation replaces the sentence there are other issues. Laws like these are usually targeted at refugees and migrants from worse off countries than the EU standard. Sometimes they don’t have functual justice systems, harsher to inhumane prison conditions or they don’t care much. So there is a high chance offenders get deported to a country that either has a punitive system that does not comply with human rights or where they do not serve a sentence at all. And I hope I do not have to remind anyone here that criminal offenders too are subject to human rights.
Deportation is no solution. It’s only an unnecessary expense of tax money that could be better invested elsewhere. Instead, the number of criminal migrants is more effectively (and cost efficiently!) reduced by preventive methods.
Yes, you do miss a lot. It is not stated whether the deportation would replace the prison sentence or be added on top.
Let’s say it’s added on top - in our modern understanding, after serving a sentence, an offender is considered rehabilitated. Why would you deport rehabilitated people? Also it is not consistent with any principle of equal treatment because offenders without danish citizenship would get punished harder than danish citizens for the same crime.
If the deportation replaces the sentence there are other issues. Laws like these are usually targeted at refugees and migrants from worse off countries than the EU standard. Sometimes they don’t have functual justice systems, harsher to inhumane prison conditions or they don’t care much. So there is a high chance offenders get deported to a country that either has a punitive system that does not comply with human rights or where they do not serve a sentence at all. And I hope I do not have to remind anyone here that criminal offenders too are subject to human rights.
Deportation is no solution. It’s only an unnecessary expense of tax money that could be better invested elsewhere. Instead, the number of criminal migrants is more effectively (and cost efficiently!) reduced by preventive methods.
Man, I wish I lived in a country where prison rehabilitated people.
Edit: Or even tried.