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.

A report from the National Hispanic Conference on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, July 28-30, 1980, Washington, D.C.

Item 968-H-1

Roscoe's Digest of the law of evidence in criminal cases.

Mode of access: Internet.

Roscoe's Digest of the law of evidence in criminal cases.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report on an investigation of the high speed hazards of steel belted radial tires on police cars : prepared for National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Juvenile correctional reform in Massachusetts : a preliminary report of the Center for Criminal Justice of the Harvard Law School /

Includes bibliographical references.

A digest of the law of criminal procedure in indictable offences.

Mode of access: Internet.

Islamic law in the modern world.

Incldes bibliography.

Annual privacy and security audit report on the procedures, policies, and practices of the Department of Law Enforcement for maintaining criminal history record information for the period ending ... /

Description based on: June 30, 1979.

Management and program audit, criminal history components, criminal justice information system, Illinois Department of Law Enforcement.

"July 1982."

Riverboat gambling and crime in Illinois : preliminary report on riverboat gambling in Joliet, impact on criminal activity and law enforcement workloads.

Cover title.

Observations on some of the methods known in the law of Massachusetts to secure the selection and appointment of an impartial jury in cases civil and criminal /

Mode of access: Internet.

Summary of the law relative to pleading and evidence in criminal cases ; with precedents of indictments, &c. and the evidence necessary to support them /

Includes index.