Ms Jeon says she was sickened to see one class of justice for the rich and another for the poor.
The low rate of prosecutions for these crimes by United States attorneys, who along with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation generally have jurisdiction for the most serious crimes on reservations, has been a longstanding point of contention for tribes, who say it amounts to a second-class system of justice that encourages law breaking.
More to the point, it reminds one of how the military commissions are being used today: a second class system of justice for the exclusive use of aliens (Timothy McVeighs deserve better, thank you) who, as a recent former vice-president said, "don't deserve our rights".
We need to talk -- and to talk up -- the language of class: making class justice as equally important a goal in our politics as is racial justice, sexual justice and gender equality.
I didn't expect my talk to a class of criminal justice majors at a local community college to be any different from the other workshops, presentations and classes I'd done.
He had presented in close, rich detail the intricacies of life in the margins and in the alleyways; his often idiosyncratic characters, from the lower and middle classes, argue over matters of justice and injustice, expectation and disillusionment, and belief in God.
The novella's central themes include the effects of story-telling perspectives, double standards between the sexes and the classes, and the fairness of justice.
Membership is confined to Roman Catholics, and the central organization is essentially aristocratic, being ruled chiefly by a primary class of "professed" knights of justice and chaplains who can prove the nobility of their four grandparents for two centuries.
There would always be some new transgression that would outrage me as a proud South-East Asian, as a liberal, as a Muslim, as an artist, as an educated member of the urban middle class, as a lover of justice and a hater of cruelty, or simply as a human being.
The mass production of justice through class actions can indeed test the limits of the role that courts play in society.
