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Safe Return: Working Toward Preventing Domestic Violence When Men Return from Prison
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Safe Return: Working Toward Preventing Domestic Violence When Men Return from Prison
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 10, 2007
ANNOTATION: Observations from a roundtable on the prevention of intimate partner violence perpetrated by individuals recently released from prison are reported. This publication covers: what is known about domestic violence and prisoner reentry; domestic violence among African Americans experiencing poverty; convening the roundtable discussions; selecting roundtable participants; key themes -- institutional resistance to dealing with domestic violence and reentry, when and how to add domestic violence work to current reentry efforts, supporting women and their children in the reentry process, building cultural competence and dealing with distrust of authorities, and integrating coordinated community responses into reentry plans; sheriff's anti-violence effort; African American program; what cultural competense is; roundtable participants -- where their practices are now; and summary and conclusion.