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- Dictionaryentrapment/ɪnˈtrapm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. the state of being caught in or as in a trap: "the feeling of entrapment grows as the roads close and the power goes out"
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Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or an agent of the state induces a person to commit a crime that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit. In US law, it is defined as "the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasi... Wikipedia