ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the characterisation of an emerging recognition of the link between sexuality and victimisation as a 'minor revolution'. The relationship between sexuality and victimisation has being going through something of a minor revolution. 'Sexuality' as a concept, as a way of making sense of human relations, has a history and has its roots in particular geographical, social, political and institutional locations. A number of reports have identified courts as one context in which perceptions and expectations of institutional victimisation may occur. The effects of institutional prejudice will have a potential to undermine investigations and undercut confidence in the police and criminal justice agencies more generally. David Garland's work warns that the criminal justice policy landscape is not necessarily consistent. Political campaigns around the criminal law and the operation of the institutions of criminal justice have been an important setting for the deployment of sexuality as a form of recognition politics.
