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Definition of Incarceration
1. Noun. The state of being imprisoned. "He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
Generic synonyms: Confinement
Specialized synonyms: Durance, Life Imprisonment, Internment
Derivative terms: Captive, Immure, Imprison, Incarcerate
Definition of Incarceration
1. n. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Definition of Incarceration
1. Noun. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. ¹
2. Noun. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. ¹
3. Noun. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incarceration
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Incarceration
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incarceration
Literary usage of Incarceration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State Responses to Serious & Violent Juvenile Crime by Patricia Torbet, Richard Gable, Imogene Montgomery (1996)
"Graduated incarceration. Juveniles sentenced as adults but incarcerated in ...
Graduated incarceration, or "Minimizing the Impact of a DOC Commitment": ..."
2. Correctional Boot Camps: A Tough Intermediate Sanction edited by Doris L. MacKenzie, Eugene E. Herbert (1996)
"Mr. Jones has primary responsibility for parole and work release classification,
program evaluation of incarceration alternatives and correctional treatment ..."
3. Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Findings of the National by Martha R. Burt (1999)
"incarceration Currently and formerly homeless clients are equally likely (49 and
... Taking all of their incarceration experiences together, 54 percent of ..."
4. Continuity of Offender Treatment for Substance Use Disorders from by Gary Field (1998)
"incarceration often creates a crisis that ripples throughout an offender's life,
... Judges may even consider treatment as an alternative to incarceration. ..."
5. A Treatise on Ruptures by William Lawrence (1838)
"The distinction that has been drawn by SCARPA, SIR CHARLES BELL, and others,
between incarceration and strangulation, two terms which have generally been ..."
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