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institutionalization

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  1. The process of establishing a practice as a norm.
  2. The process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital.
  3. The presence of social deficits or disabilities as a result of a long period spent in a prison, mental hospitals, etc.

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