What is moral turpitude?
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2 states, Crimes involving moral turpitude have an inherent quality of baseness, vileness or depravity with respect to a person’s duty to another or to society in general. Examples include rape, forgery, robbery and solicitation of prostitutes. Many jurisdictions impose penalties, such as deportation of aliens and disbarment of attorneys, following convictions of crimes involving moral turpitude.
Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States that refers to “conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals.” It appears in U.S. immigration law from the nineteenth century.In other common law jurisdictions it is dated or obsolete. ChaCha on!
