Vocabulary for the sociological analysis of the U.S. legal system.
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- adversarial procedure — the contest structure that translates social realities into competing legal narratives
- character evidence — material artifacts entered as indicators of institutional character
- legal personhood — the category that determines who can hold rights and appear in proceedings
- legal precedent — the mechanism by which legal translations propagate and persist
- prosecutorial discretion — the power to choose what enters the legal system