The Jurisdiction Series is remarkable in at least one way, it is narrated by a longtime judge in the Los Angeles County juvenile justice system, and written by a judge and deputy district attorney.
I few years ago I spotted Jurisdiction Terminated—the setting for the tale is the juvenile court system and its holding facilities. From the numbingly bureaucratic courts to suspenseful criminal activity and police actions on the streets of a violent Koreatown that novel kept me riveted to the last page.
So I was delighted to see the recent release of a follow-up to that novel. Jurisdiction Denied, again written by the same knowledgeable duo.
The judge’s often humorous, often cynical narration of the inner workings of a system supposedly designed to rehabilitate the youthful offenders and violent gangbangers passing through a courtroom, freezing in the winter and stifling in the summer.
The system is clearly broken and we learn many of the reasons for it.
One of my favorite takeaways is the different treatment afforded to the children of the rich and to those whose parents are scuffling in a mean city for a living.
In one case humorously recounted by the judge, a rich kid’s parents hire a “professional” babbling nonsense about her youthful client’s brain not being as of yet totally formed and thusly he is incapable of discerning right from wrong. The state prosecutor handily dissembles that costly but nonsensical defense.
The scene is timely as it has the same arrogance as one currently unfolding in the news right now—rich parents bribing university officials to accept their often lazy, doltish children.
Jurisdiction Denied has a griping parallel story—a sexy Latina/Korean woman, a trained cold blooded killer tracking down an array of victims—from Israeli agents and drug dealers to workers at a juvenile facility that she enters unimpeded in a nun’s habit, to an elderly man who she casually kicks off a speeding train …
I highly recommend this novel for its fast paced description of a rotting inner city juvenile justice system as well as a gripping tale of a well-trained murderer, clever enough to always be a few steps ahead of law enforcement, lose on the streets of Los Angeles.
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