How to change your life: hope, love, anger and other unlikely revolutionaries

Abstract

Throughout this book, we have set out the different ways in which crime, justice and sexuality interact with each other and with other institutions, including medical discourses, the family, the State, populism, the media, the idea of the nation, and so on. The way that sex is treated by criminal justice systems co-constructs the values and ethics of the time and space that we occupy, wherever and whenever that time and space are. You will have seen how sometimes that works to remedy injustice. You will also have seen how that is not always the case. Here, we are finishing this book by giving consideration to the ways in which you might take some of your learning out of the classroom and into the world: what we call – borrowing from Paulo Freire (2017[1970]) – the establishment of a praxis, or the capacity to act