The evidence base on economic abuse and the negative economic impact of domestic violence more broadly has expanded over the past ten years. Program interventions to support women’s economic stability have also been developed and evaluated.
The reports below reflect national and international knowledge. Join the international network for updates.
2025
Commerce over care: exploring legal advice given in potential economic abuse cases Journal Article
In: Legal Ethics, 2025.
2024
Can Street-Level Bureaucrats Assist with Material Resources? Naming, Trivializing and Privatizing Economic Abuse in Israel Journal Article
In: Ethics and Social Welfare, 2024.
Specialist Financial Counseling for Women Affected by Domestic and Family Violence: Staff and Client Perspectives on an Australian Initiative Journal Article
In: Violence Against Women, 2024.
Responding to economic abuse: An institutional logics analysis of feminist activism Journal Article
In: Gender, Work & Organisation, 2024.
Access to Justice for Victims of Economic Exploitation Journal Article
In: Alberta Law Review, 2024.
Shortchanged: Uncovering and Analyzing Intimate Partner Financial Abuse in Consumer Complaints Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), 2024.
Designed to disrupt: reimagining general insurance products to improve financial safety Technical Report
2024.
2023
Identifying and supporting financially vulnerable women experiencing economic abuse: a grounded theory approach Journal Article
In: eJournal of Tax Research, 2023.
Addressing Economic Abuse in Intimate-partner Violence Interventions: A Bacchian Analysis of Responsibility Journal Article
In: Journal of Family Violence, 2023.
Economic Harm Support Service Pilot Evaluation Technical Report
2023.
Economic Abuse Book Chapter
In: 2023.
Financial Abuse in a Banking Context: Why and How Financial Institutions can Respond Journal Article
In: Journal of Business Ethics, 2023.
Pathways to Financial Security: A New Legal Avenue for Survivors of Coerced Debt in California Journal Article
In: California Law Review, 2023.
2022
Intimate partner economic abuse in loans and guarantees: An empirical review of 10 years of cases Journal Article
In: Australian Journal of Family Law, 2022.
Economic abuse: A global perspective Technical Report
2022.
Financial Abuse In Domestic Violence: How Can Islamic Financial Institutions Play Their Role? Journal Article
In: IIUM Law Journal, 2022.
Designed to Disrupt: Reimagining banking products to improve financial safety Technical Report
2022.
Optimization of eHealth interventions for intimate partner violence and abuse: A qualitative study amongst Arabic-speaking migrant women Journal Article
In: Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2022.
Economic Harm Support Service Pilot: Interim six-month report Technical Report
2022.
2021
ECOVIO Project Deliverables Technical Report
2021.
Preventing the financial abuse of women: literature and desktop review Online
Analysis & Policy Observatory 2021.
2020
Holistic responses to economic abuse: Reporting on progress Online
Women's Policy Action Tank 2020.
Responding to Financial Abuse Full Report Online
Women's Legal Service Victoria 2020.
2018
Women's Legal Service Victoria 2018.
2017
2015
Restoring Financial Safety: Legal responses to economic abuse Journal Article
In: Good Shepherd, 2015.
2013
Escaping Battered Credit: A Proposal for Repairing Credit Reports Damaged by Domestic Violence Journal Article
In: UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW, 2013.
2012
The Domestic Abuse and Money Education (DAME) Project: Final Report Online
Women's Aid 2012.