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This work explores criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It contextualizes the issue of sex offenders in the community, exploring the theoretical and legal frameworks that underpin current practice. It also covers risk assessment

This article was written is connection with the publication of the new Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought. It considers the reception of twentieth-century Russian religious thought in the English-speaking academy, as well as the importance of linguistic questions in this tradition. Three 'linguistic paradigms' are analysed: dialogue, translation and the proposition. In Russian religious thought, these paradigms are interpreted as phenomena that reveal the object of philosophical thought: philosophy is dialogue, or translation, or a proposition. The publication of the Oxford Handbook corresponds to the first paradigm, as the latest step in a continuous dialogue between Russian religious thought and the West. This article emphasises that this dialogue is not incidental, insofar as 'dialogue' is not only a crucial concept in this tradition (Soloviev, Ivanov, Bakhtin), but is its very form. Then, this article highlights the significance of the work of Robert Bird. Bird's work enables a philosophical conception of translation, as the interpretation of the idiom of Russian religious thought in terms of the language of another culture. Finally, this article analyses the theories of S.N. Bulgakov, A.F. Losev and S.S. Khoruzhii, and their significance for contemporary religious thought in the West.

Reunification posed multiple challenges to the societies, economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the 'border guard trials' in the wider context of post-Socialist transitional justice in East Germany since 1989 and asks how they were historically framed by the complex history of German attempts of 'Vergangenheitspolitik' (Norbert Frei) with regard to Nazi crimes. Moreover, this dissertation examines how the criminal proceedings were ideologically shaped by Cold War confrontations, and how competing conceptions of illegality and state crime mirrored those ideological and historical contestations. In studying the political and societal echoes of these criminal trials, the study finally also contributes to a better understanding of fractured views on and memories of German re-unification in contemporary Germany.

Introduction -- The tort framework -- A tort-based approach to human rights damages -- The public law-private law distinction -- Human rights damages and "just satisfaction" : the "mirror" approach -- Interest-balancing approaches -- Other methods of limiting human rights damages -- Conclusion.