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Police recorded crime trends in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 18/08/2025

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The Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) has released a research paper entitled "Police-recorded crime trends in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic". The paper examines trends in criminal offences and family violence incidents to 30 June 2020, focusing on comparing the period from 1 April 2020 to 30 June 2020 with the same period in 2019. This paper aims to examine whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic, associated behaviour changes and implemented restrictions impacted on crime in Victoria. It examines whether there were changes in the volume, nature or location of offending recorded by police following the introduction of restrictions in late March 2020 and provides an overview of offences recorded for breaching restrictions introduced to address COVID-19.

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Title Police recorded crime trends in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/bfd2344d-9c73-4f6a-91c2-8c421f1c7922
Remote Last Updated 13/06/2024
Contact Point
Crime Statistics Agency
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 22/09/2020
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Police recorded crime trends in Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/police-recorded-crime-trends-in-victoria-during-the-covid-19-pandemic