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There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
Paul Hawken

Meaning of "incarceration" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCARCERATION

incarceration  [ɪnˌkɑːsəˈreɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCARCERATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incarceration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INCARCERATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

incarceration

Prison

A prison or jail is a facility in which individuals are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment. The most common use of prisons is as part of a criminal justice system, in which individuals officially charged with or convicted of crimes are confined to a jail or prison until they are either brought to trial to determine their guilt or complete the period of incarceration they were sentenced to after being found guilty at their trial. Outside of their use for punishing civil crimes, authoritarian regimes also frequently use prisons and jails as tools of political repression to punish political crimes, often without trial or other legal due process; this use is illegal under most forms of international law governing fair administration of justice. In times of war or conflict, prisoners of war may also be detained in military prisons or prisoner of war camps, and large groups of civilians might be imprisoned in internment camps.

Definition of incarceration in the English dictionary

The definition of incarceration in the dictionary is confinement or imprisonment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCARCERATION


acceleration
ækˌsɛləˈreɪʃən
collaboration
kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən
configuration
kənˌfɪɡjʊˈreɪʃən
consideration
kənˌsɪdəˈreɪʃən
cooperation
kəʊˌɒpəˈreɪʃən
corporation
ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən
declaration
ˌdɛkləˈreɪʃən
decoration
ˌdɛkəˈreɪʃən
deliberation
dɪˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən
duration
djʊˈreɪʃən
expiration
ˌɛkspɪˈreɪʃən
exploration
ˌɛkspləˈreɪʃən
federation
ˌfɛdəˈreɪʃən
generation
ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən
incorporation
ɪnˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən
inspiration
ˌɪnspɪˈreɪʃən
operation
ˌɒpəˈreɪʃən
preparation
ˌprɛpəˈreɪʃən
restoration
ˌrɛstəˈreɪʃən
separation
ˌsɛpəˈreɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCARCERATION

incapacitated
incapacitating
incapacitation
incapacities
incapacity
incapacity benefit
Incaparina
incapsulate
incapsulation
incarcerate
incarcerator
incardinate
incardination
incarnadine
incarnate
incarnation
incarvillea
incase
incasement
incatenate

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCARCERATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
creation
destination
documentation
education
evaluation
excitation
formation
foundation
hesitation

Synonyms and antonyms of incarceration in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCARCERATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «incarceration» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of incarceration

Translation of «incarceration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCARCERATION

Find out the translation of incarceration to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incarceration from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incarceration» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

监禁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

encarcelamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

incarceration
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क़ैद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السجن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лишения свободы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

encarceramento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কারারোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incarcération
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemenjaraan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Einkerkerung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

投獄
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dipenjara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tống giam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறைவைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कारावास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hapsetme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incarcerazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uwięzienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позбавлення волі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

încarcerare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυλάκιση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aanhouding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fängslande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fengsling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incarceration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCARCERATION»

The term «incarceration» is quite widely used and occupies the 38.763 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCARCERATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incarceration» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incarceration» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incarceration

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10 QUOTES WITH «INCARCERATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incarceration.
1
Roger Avary
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
2
Annie Besant
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.
3
Tommy Chong
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
4
Matt Gonzalez
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
5
Paul Hawken
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.
6
Gary Johnson
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
7
Ric Keller
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
8
Ben Kingsley
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
9
Nathaniel Rich
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.
10
Bryan Stevenson
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCARCERATION»

Discover the use of incarceration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incarceration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ...
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
Michelle Alexander, 2013
2
Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and ...
Addresses the issues of parenting behind bars and fostering successful family relationships after release.
Jeremy Travis, Michelle Waul, 2003
3
Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family
This insightful volume fills a void in the literature on the role of African American men in the functioning of families. It will be of interest to students of African American studies, social workers, and policy makers.
Othello Harris, R. Robin Miller
4
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass ...
Devah Pager matched up pairs of young men, randomly assigned them criminal records, then sent them on hundreds of real job searches throughout the city of Milwaukee.
Devah Pager, 2008
5
Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and ...
Parental Incarceration and the Family brings a family perspective to our understanding of what it means to have so many of our nation’s parents in prison.
Joyce A. Arditti, 2012
6
Imprisoning Communities : How Mass Incarceration Makes ...
Demonstrating that the current incarceration policy in urban America does more harm than good, from increasing crime to widening racial disparities and diminished life chances for youths, Todd Clear argues that we cannot overcome the ...
City University of New York Todd R Clear Distinguished Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2007
7
Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress
The book shows that more than a half century after the first civil rights legislation, the dismal fact of mass incarceration inflicts widespread and enduring damage by undermining the fair allocation of public resources and political ...
Becky Pettit, 2012
8
Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass ...
Argues that prison growth is not related to an increase in public safety and offers proposals for changing parole policy, reducing punitive sentences, and creating drug treatment programs in lieu of prison sentences for low-level drug ...
Michael Jacobson, 2005
9
Incarceration in America
Discusses the history and current status of incarceration in America.
Kerry Hinton, 2009
10
A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration ...
Ernest Drucker’s A Plague of Prisons takes the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS to make the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has ...
Ernest Drucker, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCARCERATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incarceration is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Real Answer to Mass Incarceration - The New Yorker
“Mass incarceration makes our country worse off,” he said. “And we need to do something about it.” Obama's bluntness was bracing, but as he ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
2
President Obama: You Forgot Women and Mass Incarceration
Female incarceration is invisible in the U.S., veiled in the broader realities of mass incarceration, hidden and often obscured by reports that cast ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Prairieville man accused in drive-by shootings gets home …
GONZALES — The last of four men accused in two April 2012 drive-by shootings in Geismar was sentenced to two years of home incarceration ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
4
"Shovel Ready" Ways To Reduce Costs Of Federal Incarceration
This week, President Obama took it upon himself to start reducing the federal prison population by commuting the sentences of 46 federal ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
5
Life after mass incarceration - BBC
About five miles north from where he spoke is where you'll find some of the areas hardest hit by the effects of mass incarceration and the lack of ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
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LETTER: Stop mass incarceration of drug users
I would like to elaborate on the heroin epidemic that New Jersey is currently in the midst of. In the last decade, the number of heroin users in ... «Cherry Hill Courier Post, Jul 15»
7
Obama Wants to End Mass Incarceration - Slate Magazine
So what is the federal government's role in ending mass incarceration, exactly, given that it only has jurisdiction over about 10 percent of the ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Bill Clinton says he made mass incarceration issue worse
(CNN) Bill Clinton said Wednesday that the crime bill he signed into law as President in 1994 worsened the nation's criminal justice system by ... «CNN, Jul 15»
9
Cuomo agrees with Obama over 'incarceration madness' | New York …
Andrew Cuomo lined up with President Obama on Wednesday to end what he described as “incarceration madness” during a speech at the ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
10
'The Stanford Prison Experiment' In The Era Of Mass Incarceration
The Stanford Prison Experiment started on August 17, 1971. It was the brainchild of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who sought to study the psychological ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»

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