| 释义 |
entrapment|ɛnˈtræpmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. The action of entrapping; the condition of being entrapped or caught by artifice.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares iv. lxxx, Northumberland..given to understand Of some entrapment by conspiracy, Gets into Wales. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 38 His first victory would rather haue proued a snare to his intrapment. 1812Examiner 28 Sept. 618/2 For whose entrapment are you thus affecting no intention of entrapping? 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. xv, Appealing from the irregular entrapment of this mode of examination. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. xvii. 408 The entrapment of various minute crustaceans.
2. Law. A method of criminal investigation in which the police instigate, initiate, or encourage the commission of a crime by a suspected offender in order to secure his or her arrest; the result of such action. (Used as grounds for defence outside the U.K.)
1899Amer. Digest (Century ed.) VIII. 1567/1 Entrapment by detectives. 1930Publishers' Weekly 11 Jan. 213/1 The use of entrapment methods by Chicago reformers to bring about the arrest of booksellers on charges of handling immoral literature has aroused city-wide indignation among the trade. 1931Federal Reporter (U. S.) LI. 676/1 It might be urged, perhaps, that the object of the conspiracy was to entrap certain suspected offenders. Nevertheless, such entrapment was to be accomplished through the violation of the Prohibition Act. 1957Encycl. Brit. VI. 717/2 The defense of entrapment is available to persons who have committed a crime at the instigation of public officers... The central issue to be determined is whether the police took the initiative in urging the commission of the crime or whether they merely secured evidence of on-going criminality. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 19 July 5/3 The court reaffirmed the ‘subjective’ view of the entrapment defense taken by the majority in Sorrells v. United States. 1985Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 5 May 22/2 Those who dislike entrapment know that informers in illicit gold and diamond dealing cases can claim one-third of the money confiscated after conviction. |