Entrapment
Definition
A legal defence arguing that law enforcement induced the defendant to commit an offence they would not otherwise have committed. In online investigations, it turns partly on who introduced and escalated the sexual content in the conversation.
Related terms
- Conversation analysis
- The systematic study of the sequential structure of talk : how turns are allocated, how topics are initiated and responded to, and...
- Desensitisation
- A staged reduction of the target's resistance to sexual topics or contact, achieved in grooming through gradual introduction of sexual content, normalisation...
- Illocutionary act
- The social action performed by an utterance : requesting, threatening, promising, warning : distinct from its literal propositional content. Grooming discourse often...
- Online grooming
- A process by which an offender builds trust and emotional connection with a child (and sometimes the child's family) with the intention...
- Secrecy enforcement
- Linguistic strategies used by the groomer to prevent disclosure by the child: framing the relationship as a special secret, warning of consequences...
Explained in
- Online Grooming: Linguistic Patterns and EvidenceA legal defence arguing that law enforcement induced the defendant to commit an offence they would not otherwise have committed. In online investigations, it t...