Criminal Solicitation, Entrapment, and the Enforcement of Law

This paper examines the optimal use of criminal solicitation as a law enforcement strategy. The benefits are greater deterrence of crime (due to the greater likelihood of apprehension), and the savings in social harm as some offenders are diverted away from committing actual crimes through solicitation. The costs are the expense of hiring undercover cops and the greater likelihood of punishment. The optimal use of solicitation balances these factors. The paper also examines the justification for the entrapment defense, which exonerates those caught in a criminal solicitation but who otherwise had no predisposition to commit a crime.

Criminal Solicitation, Entrapment, and the Enforcement of Law

This paper examines the optimal use of criminal solicitation as a law enforcement strategy. The benefits are greater deterrence of crime (due to the greater likelihood of apprehension), and the savings in social harm and apprehension costs as some offenders are diverted away from committing actual crimes through solicitation. The costs are the expense of hiring undercover cops and the greater likelihood of punishment. The optimal use of solicitation balances these factors. The paper also examines the justification for, and impact of, the entrapment defense, which exonerates those caught in a solicitation but otherwise not predisposed to commit a crime.

Authorizing the Attorney General to compel the production of documentary evidence required in civil investigations for the enforcement of the antitrust laws : report, to accompany S. 716.

"Calendar no. 446."

The evolution of morality.

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Essays on the principles of morality & on the private & political rights & obligations of mankind.

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The philosophy of morality,

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An historical and critical account of the science of morality, and the progress it has made in the world, from the earliest time down to the publication of Pufendorf of the law of nature and nations: in a prefatory discourse to the said work by Mr. Barbeyrac ...

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The Christian religion in connexion with the principles of morality /

"Hulsean lectures for the year 1840."

Christian Morality : sermons on the principles of morality inculcated in the holy scriptures, in their application to the present condition of society /

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Essays on the principles of morality, and on the private and political rights and obligations of mankind.

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The elements of morality, including polity.

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THE ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW THROUGH MUNICIPAL LAW IN THE UNITED STASTES

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General information and rulings for the enforcement of the law regulating the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, or possession of explosives and their ingredients. (Public no. 68, 65th Congress; H.R. 3932)

At head of title: Department of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, secretary. Bureau of Mines, Van. H. Manning, director.