This special issue contains four articles by colleagues researching police investigations on The TORnetwork and has benefited from discussions with Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian colleagues in the same research project. TOR is probably the most popular internet browser and location of hidden services available in anonymous communication networks (ACN), more often referred to in the media as the ‘dark web’. We have not, however, framed our research findings within an overarching narrative that the ‘digital’ or ‘post-digital’ age is so transformative or disruptive that everything related to cybercrime may have to change or be invented anew—after all, cybercrime is still crime and cyber policing is still policing and as such is subject to the legal restraints (and resulting dilemmas) with regard to how to balance the individual right to be free from state interference with the need for (online) security and social safety. At the same time, there are several issues that make crime on the dark web a particularly intractable problem and compound its policing: the sheer volume of offences, the transnational nature of cybercrime and concomitant problems of jurisdiction, the degree of anonymity afforded to users of TOR, the potential for infringement of fundamental rights inherent in policing the internet and the dark web in particular. Indeed, it has been found that the volume of dark web-sites supporting what, in any legal jurisdiction is likely to amount to criminal activity, was very similar to what would only be regarded as illegal activity under the laws of an authoritarian state, such as the protection of freedom of fundamental rights through TOR’s facility to hide a whistle-blower’s identity, ensure the anonymity of journalistic sources,

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旧瓶装新酒：网络犯罪和刑事司法的另类叙述？

本期特刊包含同事在 TORnetwork 上研究警方调查的四篇文章，并从与荷兰、瑞典和挪威同事在同一研究项目中的讨论中受益。TOR 可能是最流行的互联网浏览器和匿名通信网络 (ACN) 中可用的隐藏服务的位置，在媒体中更常被称为“暗网”。然而，我们并没有将我们的研究结果框定在一个总体叙述中，即“数字”或“后数字”时代如此具有变革性或破坏性，以至于与网络犯罪相关的一切都可能不得不改变或重新发明——毕竟，网络犯罪仍然是犯罪，网络警务仍然是警务，因此在如何平衡个人不受国家干预的权利与（在线）安全和社会安全的需要方面受到法律限制（以及由此产生的困境） . 与此同时，有几个问题使暗网上的犯罪成为一个特别棘手的问题并使其监管更加复杂：犯罪数量庞大、网络犯罪的跨国性质和随之而来的管辖权问题、为用户提供的匿名程度TOR，尤其是在监管互联网和暗网时可能会侵犯基本权利。事实上，已经发现，在任何法律管辖范围内，支持犯罪活动的暗网网站数量之多，