Extradition

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Extradition is the official process in which one country surrenders a suspected or convicted criminal to another country. It is regulated by law and treaties between countries. Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdictions, the concept may be known more generally as rendition. The consensus in international law is that a state does not have any obligation to surrender an alleged criminal to a foreign state as one principle of sovereignty is that every state has legal authority over the people within of its jurisdictions...