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Becoming Institutionalized: Incarceration as a Chronic Health Condition
Author(s) -
Crane Johanna T.,
Pascoe Kelsey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical anthropology quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.855
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1548-1387
pISSN - 0745-5194
DOI - 10.1111/maq.12621
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , mass incarceration , prison , embodied cognition , criminology , state (computer science) , inequality , sociology , political science , psychology , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , mathematics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science
This article examines incarceration as a chronic condition with social, biological, and psychological elements. We do so through the lens of “institutionalization,” a concept that emerged during interviews conducted with 26 people incarcerated in Washington state prisons as a chronic and often disabling state resulting from prolonged incarceration. We argue that institutionalization helps conceptualize how the social inequities of mass incarceration become embodied as health inequities, and how social harms become physical harms. [prison, incarceration, institutionalization, chronic, inequality]