Which defense involves police trickery to induce the crime?

Which defense involves police trickery to induce the crime?

• A. Duress
• B. Insanity
• C. Entrapment
• D. Alibi

Answer: (C)

Entrapment happens when law enforcement uses deception or pressure to get a person to commit a crime they would not have otherwise planned to commit. The defense rests on the idea that the government induced the criminal act rather than the person deciding to commit it on their own, and it typically requires showing the defendant was not predisposed to the offense before the police intervened. If someone was already intending to commit the crime and the police merely provided an opportunity or advice, entrapment would not apply. Other options don’t involve police coercion: a duress defense rests on threats from another person to compel the act; insanity concerns the actor’s mental state; an alibi asserts the defendant was somewhere else and not involved.

Entrapment happens when law enforcement uses deception or pressure to get a person to commit a crime they would not have otherwise planned to commit. The defense rests on the idea that the government induced the criminal act rather than the person deciding to commit it on their own, and it typically requires showing the defendant was not predisposed to the offense before the police intervened. If someone was already intending to commit the crime and the police merely provided an opportunity or advice, entrapment would not apply. Other options don’t involve police coercion: a duress defense rests on threats from another person to compel the act; insanity concerns the actor’s mental state; an alibi asserts the defendant was somewhere else and not involved.