One month into the job, new Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has outlined his plan to tackle a crime crisis.

Victoria Shadow Treasurer James Newbury says Victorians have “had a gutful” when it comes to violent protests across the ...

Victoria does not need a permit system for protests, says the state's new top cop, who concedes there has been a breakdown in ...

Three recent books on Victorian crime and daily life stare across the uncanny valley between us and those strange folk tromping the British Isles 150 years ago in their crinoline and whalebone.

(Inside Science) -- From the mid-19th through early 20th centuries, children arrested for crimes in Victorian and Edwardian England were much less likely to wind up back in jail than youthful ...

In The Dead Witness, Michael Sims presents stories from the early days of detective fiction, revisiting classics and introducing readers to a raft of lesser-known writers, many of them women.

“Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London,” by Claire Harman. Knopf. 272 pp. $26.95. On a May night in 1840, an asthmatic, hard-of-hearing 72-year-old English aristocrat ...

‘The Devil’s Workshop’ by Alex Grecian Putnam, 400 pp., $26.95 The 1890s were a heady time for Scotland Yard, with its move into bigger headquarters to accommodate its expanded force.

‘Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London’ By Nina C. Ayoub January 9, 2004 In 1876, a woman named Elizabeth Carr faced jurors at the Old Bailey ...