Contribution to Book
Entrapment
Elgar Encyclopeadia of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
(2022)
Abstract
We discuss how the law and scholars have approached three questions. First, what acts count as acts of entrapment? Secondly, is entrapment a permissible method of law-enforcement and, if so, in what circumstances? Thirdly, what must criminal courts do, in response to the finding that an offence was brought about by an act of entrapment, in order to deliver justice? While noting the contrary tendency, we suggest that the first question should be addressed in a manner that is neutral about the answers to the other two. On the second question, we summarize various arguments about the permissibility of entrapment, while remaining largely neutral about their merits. With regard to the third question, we summarize the approaches to entrapment in various jurisdictions, and we note some patterns, across the jurisdictions here surveyed, concerning shifts from one sort of entrapment remedy to another.
Keywords
- admissibility of evidence,
- abuse of process,
- entrapment,
- entrapment defence,
- entrapment remedies,
- undercover policing
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
Editor
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Pedro Caeiro, Sabine Gless, Miguel João Costa & Foivi Mouzakiti
Publisher
Edward Elgar
ISBN
9781789902990
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789902990.entrapment
Citation Information
Attila Tanyi, Stephen McLeod and Daniel Hill. "Entrapment" Elgar Encyclopeadia of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/attila_tanyi/40/