Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:20 AM-10:40 AM
Yerba Buena Salon 7 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Poster
Learning Objectives:
- 1.Understand social and life circumstances correlated with intimate partner violence exposure among women in the first three months after discharge from prison.
- 2.Identify directions for interventions to prevent ongoing violence among women leaving prison.
This study reports on 407 women following release from provincial prison in British Columbia, Canada. We conducted interviews at release and three months later by phone or in person with community-based peer researchers who themselves had been previously incarcerated. Women experiencing intimate partner violence were more likely to have low self esteem and unmet health needs but were less likely to be homeless: Women laving prison may choose to live with violent partners as an alternative to homelessness.