Crossword clues for entrapment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from entrap + -ment. Criminal investigation sense attested by 1896.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being entrapped. 2 (context legal English) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime. 3 (context chemistry English) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.
WordNet
n. a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
Wikipedia
In criminal law, entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit. It is a conduct that is generally discouraged and thus, in many jurisdictions, is a possible defense against criminal liability.
Depending on the law in the jurisdiction, the prosecution may be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped or the defendant may be required to prove that they were entrapped as an affirmative defense.
Sting operations are fraught with ethical concerns over whether they constitute entrapment.
Entrapment is a 1999 American caper film directed by Jon Amiel and written by Ronald Bass. It stars Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones and includes Will Patton, Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin. The film focuses on the relationship between investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker and notorious crook Robert "Mac" MacDougal as they attempt a heist at the turn of the New Millennium. The film was released theatrically in the United States on 30 April 1999 and in the United Kingdom on 2 July 1999.
Usage examples of "entrapment".
The Mrach have lured several threaders such as she into similar entrapment on their worlds.
The group of red lights gets brighter as the Titian Fleet moves further and further into our area of the Milky Way, and we hope to explain how they can defy certain known astrophysical laws, avoiding entrapment by the huge suns they skirt.
But he accepted the confession nonetheless, hearing with mounting anger the skein of the Jesuit's sins: the pair of underpants he had stolen from Soutane that had, apparently, alerted her to the fact that her apartment had been searched, her subsequent entrapment of the priest in the Cours Saleya, his divulging everything he knew of the Forest of Swords, of who he was working for, including Dante's name.
To avoid entrapment, most of the British cavalry and artillery, two regiments of Hessians, and some 3,000 loyalists with their movable property were sent to New York by sea, while the rest of the army—9,000 strong, with a baggage train of 1,500 wagons that extended almost twelve miles—set out on a forced march across New Jersey.
It detailed the gruesome death and media circus surrounding the entrapment of a caver in the 1920s.
Despite much harassment and entrapment, these provisos are quite clearly unenforceable.
They engaged in an entrapment scheme to screw Barbara Graham--wigged out in the women's jail.