Transinstitutionalization

The transition of disabled people from one type of institutional setting to another rather than to genuine community-based living. For example, the movement of disabled individuals from clinical institutions such as psychiatric hospitals to criminal institutional settings such as prisons, or from one form of congregate care to another. Transinstitutionalization highlights how deinstitutionalization efforts can fail to achieve true community integration, instead shifting people between different forms of institutional control. The concept is particularly relevant in accessibility technology design, where domestic surveillance systems may inadvertently transform community-based homes into pseudo-institutional spaces.