There's a shortage of public defenders in New Orleans. Notice how there's never a shortage of prosecutors, only of public defenders? There's plenty of funds to put people in jail, but the government so often seems to have difficulty finding funds to give poor people a fair defense. Rich people can afford good lawyers, but poor people get screwed. Partly as a result of this disparity, the criminal justice system is slanted in favor of the wealthy, and therefore illegitimate.
The separation of "the consumption and distribution of resources" from other aspects of life is basically a capitalist thing. Pre-capitalist societies generally weren't divided in such a way. The idea of "economics" is largely arbitrary when looking at non-capitalist societies. What counts as a "resource"? If I give someone a massage for free then that's not considered part of the economy, usually. But if I get paid to give those people a massage then that's typically considered part of economics. Same activity, but one involves commodities so it's covered under economics. Pretty much anything can be commodified, so pretty much anything can become a part of "the economy." The very phrase "consumption and distribution of resources" smacks of commodity production. If you advocate a society not based on commodity production then the concept of "economics" is problematic. You could try to fix this by restricting economics to only cover the production of basic necessities, but that excludes a lot of things traditionally covered by economics (luxury commodities, for example) and still isn't a very good way to analyze non-capitalist societies in many cases.
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