In my master's thesis titled Economic abuse and Restraining Order, I consider economic abuse as a criminal offense under Articles 191 and 192 of the Criminal Code and as prohibited conduct under the Act on the Prevention of Domestic Violence. In the introduction, I focus on the definition of this concept and the differences in its content, derived from both Slovenian and foreign sources. In the following, I present the issue of economic abuse through the specific circumstances of the most vulnerable groups of victims of economic domestic abuse, i.e. women, children and the elderly. Here, I connect the occurrence of the latter with the role of patriarchy and economic (co)dependence in society. When studying the treatment of economic violence, I recognize the difficulty in separating it from other forms of domestic abuse and the insufficient social sensitivity to this problem, which still too often perceives all forms of domestic abuse as a private and not a social problem. I investigate the possibilities of limiting economic violence both on the part of state institutions and the possibilities offered by the Slovenian legal system to the victims. In accordance with the second part of the thesys’ title, I focus on researching whether a restraining order as a measure of direct short-term removal of the perpetrator is a possible and sensible way to deal with economic abuse. In the empirical part of the thesys, I analyze the main characteristics of economic abuse in practice through the consideration of three set hypotheses and confirm that the most common victims are the perpetrators' female partners, and the violence is most often carried out in the form of economic exploitation, which in most cases is accompanied by psychological and physical violence. I conclude with the thought that, despite solid measures to regulate economic violence in Slovenian legislation, there is a lack of opportunities to pursue its prevention in practice.
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