Overview
- Surviving Economic Abuse’s analysis of 2012–2024 Domestic Homicide Reviews estimates one person dies every 19 days when economic abuse co-occurs with intimate partner violence.
- Evidence of economic abuse was present in 51% of reviews, yet panels formally identified it in fewer than half of those cases, indicating likely undercounting.
- Economic abuse appeared more prominently in suicides, underscoring its role as a serious risk factor for both homicide and suicide.
- Most victims in these cases were women and most perpetrators were men, with victims experiencing economic abuse younger on average (around 40) than in other reviewed deaths (around 52).
- SEA urges integration of economic abuse into risk guidance and police training and calls for Home Office direction on financial-sector involvement in DHRs, with officials asked for comment.