The rate of crime per head of population is up 9 per cent, reaching its highest recorded figures in two decades, as retail ...

Almost a quarter of a million Victorians became victims of crime in the past year, with the number of criminal offences ...

A group of 6600 repeat offenders was responsible for a quarter of all crimes in Victoria in the 12 months to September.

Jacinta Allan is racing the clock to ram through her crackdown on violent young offenders before the end of the year, as new Liberal leader Jess Wilson weighs up whether to back the reforms amid ...

Australia’s largest car parts retailer has revealed the extraordinary scale of Victoria’s retail theft epidemic. Angus McKay, the CEO of ASX-listed Bapcor, said the level of theft and acts of violence ...

The horror new crime data was released to the media just after 9am on Thursday which revealed the worst crime rate on record. Victoria Police published their summary of the data at 9.05am — just 10 ...

In Wilkie Collins’s 1868 mystery novel, The Moonstone, the otherwise respectable household steward Gabriel Betteredge finds himself gripped by a powerful—but, it seems, not altogether ...

Jacinta Allan last week urged the AFL and Richmond to explain how Balta is available for selection despite pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She described footage of the Balta ...

Garrotting and the murders of Jack the Ripper provoked nation-wide panics during the 19th century. Were the Victorians right to think that crime was in decline? The Victorians had faith in progress.

Michael Sims, editor of The Dead Witness, resurrects long-forgotten Victorian crime writing. With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...