Definition of "institutionalization" [institutionalization]

• The process of establishing a practice as a norm (noun)
• The process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital (noun)

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• "I use the term institutionalization, but what I really want to focus on are what institutionalizes a game."
• "But de-institutionalization is not among the major sources of mass incarceration."
• "I pointed to the provocative chart below a few days ago and was intrigued by the thesis that the prison boom has basically been the flipside of the 60s-era decline in institutionalization of the mentally ill:"