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Entrapment in the Net?

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Internet stings to catch child molesters raise problems for popular tests of entrapment that focus on causation, initiative, counterfactuals, and subjective predisposition. An objective test of entrapment works better in the context of the Internet. The best form of objective test is determined by consequences of drawing a line at various places. This approach allows some Internet stings but counts other stings as entrapment when they go too far.

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    Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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Sinnott-Armstrong, W. Entrapment in the Net?. Ethics and Information Technology 1, 95–104 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010059427954

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