What Is Financial Abuse?

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Women's and gender studies, Social sciences

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https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0602/1386945-financial-abuse-coercive-control-relationships/

RTE Brainstorm, updated / Friday, 2 Jun 2023 16:00

Abstract

While financial abuse is not gender specific, it is more likely to be reported by women. Women's Aid Ireland reported that 7% of the calls it received related to financial abuse, while one in six women in the UK have experienced financial abuse in a relationship.

But there is relatively little understanding of this abuse compared to other forms of abuse in intimate partner relationships and it was mostly thought of as a form of elder abuse. Financial abuse is a form of coercive control and involves the perpetrator using finances to exert power and control, in many cases, over a woman. Coercive control became a criminal offence with the enactment of the Domestic Violence Act 2018.

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