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  • Sociology
  • Criminology
  • Economics

Background:

  • Coerced debt, a facet of intimate partner violence (IPV), involves abusive partners fraudulently or coercively incurring debt in their victims' names.
  • This understudied form of financial abuse has significant economic and personal repercussions for survivors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the types of credit accounts and transactions used to create coerced debt.
  • To quantify the financial extent and nature of purchases made using coerced debt.
  • To identify the reasons perpetrators provided for coercing partners into opening accounts.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative and qualitative data collected from 187 women recently divorced from abusive husbands.
  • Online surveys and telephone interviews were utilized for data collection.
  • Descriptive statistics and inductive thematic analysis were employed for data analysis.

Main Results:

  • Coerced debt is prevalent and financially damaging, affecting 116 participants with an average of 4.4 debts each, totaling over $12.5 million.
  • Common accounts included credit cards, vehicle loans, mortgages, personal loans, and student loans, with coercive transactions being more frequent than fraudulent ones.
  • Debts funded necessities, lifestyle purchases, transportation, perpetrator's interests, and family needs; perpetrators cited 'personal resource adequacy' as the primary reason.

Conclusions:

  • Coerced debt presents diverse and costly financial abuse scenarios within intimate partner violence.
  • Further research is needed on the impact of coerced debt and effective interventions, including screening tools and legal measures.