This quantitative and qualitative thesis is interested in one of the most controversial topics inthe area of sexual violence, namely false rape allegations. This thesis explores the even morecontroversial topic, regarding the experiences of how it’s like to be the suspect in a rapeallegation.The quantitative part of this thesis deals with a categorization of 120 rape reports from2022 in Central and West Jutland Police department. The categorization is made based on adisagreement in the police regarding the number of actual false rape reports. The different rapereports consist of five different categories, which are ‘clear’ rape reports, ‘baseless’ rape reports,‘unresolved’ rape reports, ‘false’ rape reports and ‘uninvestigated’ rape reports. The quantitativepart of this thesis is developed by a content analysis, which shows that the false rape reportsmake up 9 % of the total amount of rape reports in Central and West Jutland Police departmentin 2022. The categorization and the quantitative content analysis is used as a backgroundmaterial for the primary qualitative part of this thesis.The qualitative study involves the categories concerning the baseless-, the unresolvedandthe false rape reports. The collected data for the qualitative part of this study consist ofinterviews with three young men from the three mentioned categories, who have all experiencedbeing suspected of rape. In the qualitative analysis of the interviews, Erving Goffman’s theoryof social stigma is used to portray a nuanced and in-depth idea of the stigmatization that suspectsin rape reports can experience. The informants spoke about the feeling of being a victim, butnot being accepted as such, because they have already been stigmatized as ‘a rapist’ from thestart. As a result of the stigmatization, suspects in rape allegations are subject to different formsof negative effects, which finds to have a significant impact on their lives, even though they’renot convicted for the felony. These negative effects furthermore form the basis of differentnegative feelings, such as uncertainty, meaninglessness, shame, incomprehension, and a feelingof unreality as well as not being heard as a human being. Towards the end of this thesis, a needfor some kind of support and help to other individuals in the same situation, is discussed. Basedon the qualitative analysis, it’s concluded that the consequences of being a suspect of rape canresult in a psychologically vulnerable situation for the individual with experienced harassmentand social isolation.