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The Crime Statistics Agency has today released key family violence measures from the 2018-19 Victorian Family Violence Database.

This research paper examines the characteristics and offending behaviour of all women who entered prison in Victoria between July and December during 2012, 2015 and 2018.

The Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) released recorded crime statistics for unique victims and unique alleged offenders in Victoria for the year ending 30 June 2019 today.

The number of criminal incidents recorded by Victoria Police in the year to 30 June 2019 was 387,389, up 1.3% from 382,445 incidents recorded in the same period last year.

The Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) released the Victorian recorded crime statistics for the year ending 30 June 2019 today.

The Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) has identified and corrected an error in the calculation of the 2010 rates per 100,000 population for Police Service Areas (PSA) in the data released on the CSA website on 20 June 2019.

In the last 12 months the number of criminal incidents recorded increased by 2.0% or 7,761 incidents to 387,157 incidents. While the rate remained stable at 5,869.9 per 100,000 population, it is the lowest criminal incident rate since the year ending March 2015.

Summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data quality and how to access this information.

In the year ending March 2019 Victoria had the lowest number of youth alleged offender incidents (10–17 years) and rate per 100,000 Victorians in 10 years.

The Crime Statistics Agency has today released the Victorian recorded crime statistics for the year ending 31 March 2019.