Paedophile Hunters’, Criminal Procedure, and Fundamental Human Rights

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ID11449762
AutoresJoe Purshouse (School of Law University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ England, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas384-411
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Law and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-323X • E-ISSN: 1467-6478
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jols.12235
OpenAlexW3022043441
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas7

‘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

Criminal justice · Criminology · Human rights · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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