Unique Victims and Unique Alleged Offenders: Year ending June 2019

There were 82,989 unique alleged offenders recorded by Victoria Police in 2018–19, up 6.3% (5,048 unique alleged offenders) compared to the same time period last year.
Of the unique alleged offenders where sex was recorded, 65,092 (76.6%) were male and 19,873 (23.4%) were female.
In the last 12 months the average age for unique alleged offenders has increased to 33.9 years, this is the highest in CSA data holdings, which go back to July 2004.
The age group with the highest number of alleged offenders in the current year was 25–29 years (12,243 unique alleged offenders), this age group made up 14.4% of all unique alleged offenders.
Over the last five years the proportion of alleged offenders under the age of 25 years has decreased (from 33.8% to 28.1%) while the proportion of offenders aged 25 years or older increased (65.3% to 70.9%).
66.5% of unique alleged offenders (56,499) were involved in one incident in the year ending June 2019.
Males were more likely to have been involved in multiple incidents, with 34.4% of male alleged offenders linked to more than one incident, compared to 30.6% of females.
Unique alleged offenders had, on average, 2.0 incidents in the 12 months to the year ending June 2019.

The number of unique victims recorded by Victoria Police in 2018–19 decreased by 0.8% to 226,167.
82.6% of victims were people (186,812) and 17.4% were organisations (39,355).
Males made up 56.2% (104,820) of all person victims while female victims made up 43.8% (81,783).
The average age of person victims was 39.2 years, and the age group with the highest number of victims was 25–29 years (23,816 victims).
Of the 186,812 unique person victims recorded in the year to June 2019, 91.8% (171,474) of victims had one report recorded.
Those who were most likely to experience repeat victimisation were females between 10–14 years. Of the 1,896 female victims aged 10–14 years, 11.0% (209 victims) had more than one victim report recorded in the reference period.

For a detailed breakdown of the data go to the latest crime data and for explanatory information and definitions, see the Explanatory Notes and Glossary.