Many of the youths terrorising Melbourne streets are children in state care, raised in residential units often marked by trauma and neglect, sources claim.

The Victorian government defends the strength of its bail laws, after the opposition criticised a recently updated guide ...

Damning new statistics have confirmed what Victorians already knew – crime is out of control, as one of the state’s top cops ...

African academics, lawyers and executives devised a blueprint to rehabilitate youth criminals more than a year ago but were ...

Opposition Leader Brad Battin has vowed to continue his crime crusade. He says that right now, it is the most important issue ...

An official guide for judges and magistrates, updated in the wake of the Victorian government’s crackdown on crime, still encourages the judiciary to release accused youth criminals on bail.

Police allege as many as eight masked men, believed to be gang members with machetes, are responsible for the deaths of the two boys overnight in what they call a likely case of “mistaken identity”.

Community groups have slammed the state government’s decision to cut funding to a two-decade old program which helps keep ...

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