Assignment 3 Storytelling

Storytelling on Victoria Crime Data

  • The data is sourced from State Victoria. (2017, December 31). Homepage | Crime Statistics Agency Victoria. Vic.gov.au. https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/.

  • The presentation analyzes the trend of offences.

  • The presentation analyzes the most prevalent offence types and locations.

Overall Trend

  • There is no clear upward or downward trend in terms of total offences

Trend by Offence Division

  • There is a slight upward trend for crimes against person and justice procedure offences

Offence Division Composition

  • Property and deception offences is the most prevalent offences in 2023

Details on B Offences

  • Among the B offences, the most prevalent subdivisions are Steal from a motor vehicle, other theft, and criminal damage.

Most Dangerous Location?

  • In all years, residential locations are the most “dangerous” places, where most offences occur, ignoring the severity of offences.

Which subdivision of residential location?

  • In the residential locations, private residential locations witnessed the most offences in 2023

Are most offences driven by family incident?

  • Most crimes are not driven by family incidents

Most unsolved offences

  • Offence B is also the most unsolved offences, which could explain its prevalence.

What about drugs?

  • Three drugs most commonly seen in offences are Cannabis, Methylamphetamine, and Prescription.