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® 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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de Sousa, A. R., Pereira, Á., do Nascimento Paixão, G. P., Pereira, N. G., Campos, L. M., & Couto, T. M. (2016). Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men. Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 24. https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.1569.2847
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