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Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men
Anderson Reis de Sousa1, Álvaro Pereira2, Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento Paixão3
1MSc, Professor, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Santo Antônio de Jesus, BA, Brazil.
Objective:
to know the consequences that men experience related to incarceration by conjugal violence.
Methods:
qualitative study on 20 men in jail and indicted in criminal processes related to conjugal violence in a Court specialized in Family and Domestic Violence against women. The interviews were classified based on Collective Subject Discourse method, using NVIVO(r) software.
Results:
the collective discourse shows that the experience of preventive imprisonment starts a process of family dismantling, social stigma, financial hardship and psycho-emotional symptoms such as phobia, depression, hypertension, and headaches.
Conclusion:
due to the physical, mental and social consequences of the conjugal violence-related imprisonment experience, it is urgent to look carefully into the somatization process as well as to the prevention strategies regarding this process.
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