Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse

Economic abuse is a tactic used by abusers to control their intimate partners, and this book provides a crucial validation of the lived experience of victim-survivors. It highlights the urgent need to develop effective responses to the issue and argues for the expansion of the coordinated community response model to domestic abuse to address economic control.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 21 June 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Despite being acknowledged by victim-survivors as a tactic employed by abusers, economic abuse has garnered limited attention in research, policy, and practice. Authored by an esteemed expert in economic abuse, this compelling book offers a vital validation of the lived experiences of victim-survivors, emphasizing the immediate necessity to establish effective responses to this issue.

Breaking new ground, Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse uncovers the diverse methods abusers employ to exert control over their intimate partners through economic resources, underscoring the significance of holding abusers accountable for their actions. While this book primarily focuses on Westminster policy in the UK, the author emphasizes how the case for "naming and defining economic abuse in statute holds broader resonance. Sharp-Jeffs makes a groundbreaking argument for recognizing this form of abuse, advocating for the expansion of the coordinated community response model to domestic abuse to address economic control by involving "non-traditional stakeholders such as money/debt advice organizations and the financial services sector, alongside specialist domestic abuse services and statutory agencies. Arriving in the aftermath of the Domestic Abuse Act (2021), which broadened the discourse from financial to economic abuse, Sharp-Jeffs redirects our attention to this critical momentum for change and takes a significant step toward shedding light on a form of coercive and controlling behavior that has remained obscured for far too long.

Weight: 252g
Dimension: 127 x 196 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801174213