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 ...

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 ...

In 2019, the peak time for sex offences was in the wee hours of Sunday morning. From midnight to 6am, there were 445 offences recorded, according to data released exclusively to News Corp Australia ...

There are now less full-time police officers protecting Victorians than when Jacinta Allan first came to power — the alarming drop coming as the crime rate has exploded and population surged. Victoria ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest crime data, released on Thursday, revealed that there were 235,425 individual Victorian crime victims over the past 12 months, representing a 10.7 per cent rise. In the past year to ...