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This study investigated the extent to which the alleged perpetrator's gender and the subject's mandated reporter status and acquaintanceship with sexual abuse affect judgments of the credibility of children's reports that they have been sexually abused. Eighty-one educators and 104 undergraduates read a brief vignette in which a child alleged that she had been sexually abused and the accused denied the allegation. Results revealed that males and females found the child equally credible, the allegations involving male perpetrators were believed more than allegations involving females, and that educators believed the allegations less than undergraduates. There was a significant interaction between gender of subject and gender of perpetrator that was not consistent with a hypothesized gender sympathy effect. No relationship between acquaintanceship with sexual abuse and credibility ratings was found.

Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's Forts and Castles -- Forts and Castles Research: Perspectives and Sources -- This Collection: Thematic, Theoretical and Empirical Common Grounds -- Concluding Suggestions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory -- The Foundation of Grossfriedrichsburg: A Small Niche for a Weak Newcomer (1681-1683) -- Pokesu: A Hub of Atlantic Entanglements (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) -- The Invention of a Tradition: Grossfriedrichsburg as "The First German Colony" (Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- Postcolonial Echoes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 'Far from My Native Land, and Far from You': Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- Narratives of Heroics and Honour -- Memories of Abolition -- Myths of Romantic Possibility -- The Letters of Letty Landon -- Conclusion: More Real Than Truth -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa -- Introduction -- An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Dutchman… -- Critical Distance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- This Study: Theme and Background -- Historical and Spatial Setting: Fortifications, Spheres of Interest and Security -- Illusions of Grandeur and Power -- Treaties and Architectures of Protection -- Maximising Profit: Intermediaries in the Militarised Economic Space