‘Paedophile hunters’ have attracted global media attention. The limited literature on paedophile hunters, which documents their emergence in contemporary liberal democracies, pays scant attention to how their use of intrusive investigative methods may threaten the procedural rights of suspects and undermine the integrity of the criminal justice system. This article fills this normative ‘gap’ in the literature. It draws upon media coverage, criminal procedure jurisprudence, and criminological scholarship to analyse the regulation of paedophile hunting in English and Welsh law. The article suggests that domestic law does not afford adequate protection to due process and the fundamental human rights of those falling under the paedophile hunter's purview. Unless paedophile hunting is constrained by a narrower and more robustly enforced regulatory regime, it should not be permitted, let alone encouraged, in contemporary liberal democracies.

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“恋童癖猎人”，刑事诉讼程序和基本人权

“恋童癖猎人”引起了全球媒体的关注。有关恋童癖猎人的文献有限，记载了他们在当代自由民主国家的兴起，却很少关注他们使用侵入性调查方法如何威胁嫌疑人的程序权利并破坏刑事司法系统的完整性。本文填补了文献中的这种规范性“空白”。它利用媒体报道，刑事诉讼法学和犯罪学奖学金来分析英国和威尔士法律对恋童癖狩猎的规定。该文章认为，国内法没有为处于恋童癖者职权范围内的人们的正当程序和基本人权提供足够的保护。