Domestic violence and women’s economic security: Building Australia’s capacity for prevention and redress: Final report

Abstract

Financial issues, including the prospect of leaving property or assets behind are major factors in women’s decisions about leaving or staying in violent relationships, and the economic difficulties arising from violence, including loss of wealth upon separation, reverberate through women’s lives and increase hardship in the long-term.

This report builds on the ANROWS Landscapes paper Building effective policies and services to promote women’s economic security following domestic violence: State of knowledge paper that discusses how economic abuse is a frequent, yet under-researched tactic of violence. The Landscapes paper also highlighted evidence of inadequacies in the systems intended to identify, prevent and respond to the economic harms arising from violence.