All 3 Uses

entrapment
in
Black Like Me
(Edited)

In the early days, a number of effective men were entrapped in situations that either damaged them personally or ruined their reputations.
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entrapped = lured into wrongdoing
We feared that he would be victimized by character assassins, perhaps even entrapped into this kind of "woman rap."

entrapped = lured
We discussed this problem of character assassination and entrapment with Dr. King and Dick Gregory and Whitney Young and other men active in civil rights.

entrapment = being lured into wrongdoing

Definitions:

(1) (entrapment as in: claimed legal entrapment)
law: a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not lured into it by law enforcement officials
(2) (entrapment as in: entrapment in a spider's web)
something that traps or lures
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)