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dc.contributor.authorTanyi, Attila
dc.contributor.authorMcLeod, Stephen K
dc.contributor.authorHill, Daniel J.
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T11:05:55Z
dc.date.available2023-09-19T11:05:55Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-27
dc.description.abstractSome legal theorists say that legal entrapment to commit a crime is incoherent. So far, there is no satisfactorily precise statement of this objection in the literature: it is obscure even as to the type of incoherence that is purportedly involved. (Perhaps consequently, substantial assessment of the objection is also absent.) We aim to provide a new statement of the objection that is more precise and more rigorous than its predecessors. We argue that the best form of the objection asserts that, in attempting to entrap, law-enforcement agents lapse into a form of practical incoherence that involves the attempt simultaneously to pursue contrary ends. We then argue that the objection, in this form, encompasses all cases of legal entrapment only if it is supplemented by appeal to the premise that law-enforcement agents have an absolute duty never to create crimes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTanyi A, McLeod SK, Hill DJ. What is the incoherence objection to legal entrapment?. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 2020en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1832931
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v22i1.1181
dc.identifier.issn1559-3061
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31100
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Ethics & Social Philosophyen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleWhat is the incoherence objection to legal entrapment?en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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