Research:
The research on Economic abuse in South Africa is limited; it does however correlate with research conducted internationally. Globally there is a lack of empirical data on post relationship abuse of which financial abuse is one component of the cycle/wheel.
We have launched our own research to collect data on the prevalence of Economic and Financial Abuse in relationship and post relationship, the research includes victims’ experiences in the Family Courts. The results of the research will provide the much-needed data to not only inform policy but legislation.
We have a significant amount of anecdotal evidence and data from our Facebook groups, which is in excess of 130 000 members of which 85% are women, we have been able to identify trends and approximate the prevalence.
Published articles on economic abuse:
Economic Abuse Experiences and Depressive Symptoms among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
(Amanda M. Stylianou 2018)
Economic abuse: A theory of intrahousehold sabotage
(Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer 2012)
The Revised Scale of Economic Abuse (SEA2): Development and Initial Psychometric Testing of an Updated Measure of Economic Abuse in Intimate Relationships
(Adrienne E. Adams & others 2020)
Understanding Pathways within Intimate Partner Violence: Economic Abuse, Economic Hardship, and Mental Health
(Rachel J. Voth Schrag, Sarah R. Robinson & Kristen Ravi 2018)
Experiences of Economic Abuse in the Community: Listening to Survivor Voices
(Rachel J. Voth Schrag 2019)
From Economic Abuse to Economic Empowerment:Â Piloting a Financial Literacy Curriculum With Women Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence
(Amy Warren, Trudi Marchant, Darcee Schulze and Donna Chung 2019)
“It’s Not All About Money”: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Financial Abuse in the Context of VAW
(Marie Eriksson and Rickard Ulmestig 2021)
Economic Abuse: A Subtle but Common Form of Power and Control
(Kameri Christy & others 2022)
Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect on Adult Economic Well-Being
(Janet Currie and Cathy Spatz Widom 2010)
Economic Abuse as an Invisible Form of Domestic Violence: A Multicountry Review
(Judy L. Postmus, Gretchen L. Hoge, Jan Breckenridge, Nicola Sharp-Jeffs, and Donna Chung 2018)
Child support, routine income withholding, and post-divorce income
(Klawitter, Marieka M;Garfinkel, Irwin 1992)
Financial Toxicity, Financial Abuse, or Financial Torture: Let’s Call It What It is!
(Gary H. Lyman & Nicole Kuderer 2020)
The Role of Social Support in the Link Between Economic Abuse and Economic Hardship
(Rachel J. Voth Schrag & Kristen E. Ravi & Sarah R. Robinson 2020)
Change in prevalence of psychological and economic abuse, and controlling behaviours against women by an intimate partner in two cross-sectional studies in New Zealand, 2003 and 2019
(Janet Fanslow, Zarintaj Malihi, Ladan Hashemi, Pauline Gulliver, Tracey McIntosh 2021)
Economic Abuse: A Literature Review of a Salient yet Overlooked Form of Intimate Partner Violence
(Christa K. Haifley 2021)
Intimate partner violence: associations with low infant birthweight in a South African birth cohort
(Nastassja Koen & Gail E. Wyatt & John K. Williams & Muyu Zhang & Landon Myer & Heather J. Zar & Dan J. Stein 2014)
Examining the impact of economic abuse on survivors of intimate partner violence: a scoping review
(Laura Johnson, Yafan Chen, Amanda Stylianou and Alexandra Arnold 2022)
Distinguishing types of ‘economic abuses’: a three-dimensional model
(Evelyne Schmid 2015)
Understanding the economics of abuse: an assessment of the economic abuse definition within the Domestic Abuse Bill
(Nicola Sharp-Jeffs 2021)
State Facilitated Economic Abuse: A Structural Analysis of Men Deliberately Withholding Child Support
(Kristin Natalier 2018)
The Role of Social Support in the Link Between Economic Abuse and Economic Hardship
(Rachel J. Voth Schrag & Kristen E. Ravi & Sarah R. Robinson 2020)
Measuring Economic Abuse in the Lives of Survivors: Revising the Scale of Economic Abuse
(Judy L. Postmus, Sara-Beth Plummer and Amanda M. Stylianou 2016)
“And all Hell Broke Loose”: How Child Maintenance Regulations Contribute to Re‑actualizing Intimate Partner Violence between Separated Parents in Sweden
(Helena Tegler, Stina Fernqvist and Marie Flinkfeldt 2022)
Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Well-Being: Examining the Effect of Economic Abuse on Women’s Quality of Life
(Adrienne E. Adams 2019)