2008 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

 
We are pleased to announce the results of Law and Social Inquiry's 2008 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The winner is Kofi Boakye, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. The Editors offer their sincere congratulations to Mr. Boakye.
 
The winning paper will be published during 2009 in a forthcoming issue of the Journal.  In the meantime, we are pleased to take this opportunity to honor and acknowledge our winning author and to supply readers with the abstract of his papers as a foretaste of what to expect.
 

Factors Contributing to the Underreporting of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Ghana: An Exploratory Study

Kofi Boakye

This study attempts to explore cultural factors that contribute to underreporting of CSA in Ghana. The problem of underreporting of CSA in Ghana persists in spite of efforts to address this phenomenon. Three main factors are proposed in this study as contributing to the underreporting of CSA in Ghana: the problem of patriarchy, prevalence of (child) rape myth acceptance (RMA), and the collective shame syndrome (CSS). Preliminary findings are reported with data collected in Ghana in 2006, comprising 202 participants. The findings are largely in support of the three major propositions: participants showed high levels of (child) RMA; females were more susceptible to dispositional myths compared to males; males were slightly more susceptible to CSS than females, and lastly, type and content of education was shown to reduce level of CSS.               

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