Lastly, personal matters and victim-offender relationship are the last factors that contribute to not reporting rape. Personal matters are when victims would like to keep their traumatic experience to themselves because they fear their rape being public and become ridiculed by their friends and family. The victim-offender relationship makes it more difficult to prove it was rape and it makes it harder for prosecution. It is difficult to prove because the victim and offender were most likely friends and it less likely to be reported (Burgess et al., pg.378).
