Below is a list of the main criminal offences in Victoria.
We provide information for you on all the important Police charges and offences. Choose an offence and you will see;
- The Meaning of the charge
- The maximum penalty and current sentencing
- The elements of the offence
- Our case studies
- Abduction of a Child Under the Age of 16 for Sex
- Abduction or Detention for Sex
- Abortion
- Accessibility of Records for Tax Department
- Additional Records for Taxation
- Administration of Drugs for Sex
- Affray
- Aggravated Animal Cruelty
- Aggravated Assault
- Aggravated Burglary
- Ammunition – Possessing, Acquiring or Carrying
- Animal Cruelty
- Armed Robbery
- Arson
- Arson Causing Death
- Assault
- Assault With Intent to Commit a Sexual Offence
- Assaulting or Resisting Police
- Being Disguised With Unlawful Intent
- Bestiality
- Bigamy
- Blackmail
- Bomb Hoaxes
- Breach of an Intervention Order
- Breach of Community Corrections Order
- Burglary
- Careless Driving
- Causing Injury Intentionally
- Causing Injury Recklessly
- Causing Serious Injury Intentionally in Circumstances of Gross Violence
- Causing Serious Injury Recklessly in Circumstances of Gross Violence
- Collecting or Making Documents Likely to Facilitate Terrorist Acts
- Common Assault
- Common Assault (Common Law)
- Compelling Sexual Penetration
- Consequences of Failing to Comply With Section 260A
- Consorting
- Conspiracy (Common Law)
- Contaminating Goods Causing Public Alarm or Economic Loss
- Contempt of Court
- Control of Body Armour
- Control of Use of Dangerous Articles
- Corporate Criminal Responsibility for Offence Against Section 254
- Corrupting Benefits Given To, or Received By, a Commonwealth Public Official
- Culpable Driving Causing Death
- Cultivation of Narcotic Plants
- Cultivation of Narcotic Plants – Commercial Quantity
- Cultivation of Narcotic Plants – Large Commercial Quantity
- Dangerous Driving
- Dangerous Driving Causing Death or Serious Injury
- Dangerous Goods on Aircraft
- Dealing With Property Suspected of Being Proceeds of Crime
- Dealing With Property Which Subsequently Becomes an Instrument of Crime
- Delay Entry of Police
- Deliberately Omitting Information
- Destroying or Damaging Commonwealth Property
- Destroying or Damaging Property
- Destruction of Evidence
- Directing the Activities of a Terrorist Organisation
- Directors Must Give Information to Company
- Dishonestly Cause a Loss
- Dishonestly Obtain a Financial Advantage (Centrelink Fraud)
- Disturbing Religious Worship
- Drink Driving Exceed PCA
- Drive While Impaired By Drugs (Drug Driving)
- Driving a Motor Vehicle When Directed to Stop By Police
- Driving Disqualified
- Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or of Any Drug
- Driving While Exceeding the Prescribed Concentration of Alcohol
- Driving While Licence Suspended Under Infringements Act 2006
- Drunk in Public
- Drunkards Behaving in Riotous or Disorderly Manner
- Duty of Driver etc. of Vehicle That is Not a Motor Vehicle If Accident Occurs
- Duty of Driver, etc. of Motor Vehicle If Accident Occurs
- Duty of Owner of Motor Vehicle to Give Information About Driver
- Endangering Safe Operation of an Aircraft
- Endangering Safety of Aircraft
- Entering a Level Crossing When a Train or Tram is Approaching
- Escaping From Lawful Custody
- Exceed PCA
- Exceed Prescribed Concentration of Drugs
- Exceed Prescribed Concentration of Drugs (Drug Driving)
- Extortion With Threats to Destroy Property
- Extortion With Threats to Kill
- Failure of Directors to Call General Meeting
- Failure of Responsible Entity to Call Meeting of the Scheme’s Members
- Failure to Answer Bail
- Failure to Answer Questions When Attending Before the Commissioner
- Failure to Comply With Requirements Under Taxation Law
- Failure to Lodge Documents
- False Accounting
- False Imprisonment
- False or Misleading Information
- False Statements
- False Statements By Company Directors
- Falsification of Documents
- Falsifying or Concealing Identity
- Forgery
- Forgery etc. of Documents and Identification Marks
- Forging Prescriptions and Orders for Drugs of Dependence
- Form of Record – English Language
- Frauds By Officers
- Furnish False or Misleading Information (Sex Offender Registry)
- General Duty of Driver or Person in Charge of Motor Vehicle
- Getting Funds To, From, or For a Terrorist Organisation
- Giving False or Misleading Information to Tax Officers
- Going Equipped for Stealing
- Good Faith, Use of Position and Use of Information – Criminal Offences
- Importing and Exporting Border Controlled Precursors
- Importing and Exporting Commercial Quantities of Border Controlled Drugs or Border Controlled Plants
- Improper Use of Motor Vehicle
- Incest
- Inclusion of False or Misleading Information in Records
- Incurring of Certain Debts; Fraudulent Conduct
- Indecent Act In the Presence of a Child Under the Age of 16
- Indecent Assault
- Indemnifying Surety
- Inducement to Be Appointed Liquidator etc. of Company
- Infanticide
- Insider Trading
- Intentionally Causing Serious Injury
- Intentionally or Recklessly Causing a Bushfire
- Interfere With Corpse of a Human Being
- Interfering With Political Liberty
- Introduction of a Drug of Dependence Into the Body of Another Person
- Involving a Child in the Production of Child Abuse Material
- Kidnapping
- Lighting of Fires in the Open Air
- Listed Company – Director to Notify Market Operator of Shareholdings etc.
- Loitering Near Schools
- Loitering With Intent to Commit an Indictable Offence
- Making False Reports to Police etc.
- Manslaughter
- Material Personal Interest – Director’s Duty to Disclose
- Membership of a Terrorist Organisation
- Murder
- Negligently Causing Serious Injury
- Notice to ASIC of Share Cancellation
- Notice to ASIC of Share Issue
- Obscene Exposure
- Obscene, Indecent, Threatening Language and Behaviour in Public
- Obstruction of Commissioner or an Authorised Officer
- Obstruction of Commonwealth Public Officials
- Obtain a Financial Advantage By Deception (Commonwealth) (Common Centrelink Charge)
- Obtaining Drugs of Dependence By False Representation
- Obtaining Financial Advantage By Deception
- Obtaining Licence etc. By False Statements
- Obtaining Property By Deception
- Obtaining Property By Deception – Commonwealth
- Occupier etc. Permitting Unlawful Sexual Penetration
- Offence of Serious Racial Vilification
- Offence to Alter, Deface or Place Number on Engine of Motor Vehicle
- Offence to Harass Witnesses etc.
- Offence to Obstruct etc. Person Operating Road Safety Camera or Speed Detector
- Offence to Procure Use of Motor Vehicle By Fraud
- Offence to Provide False or Misleading Information
- Offence to Sell Certain Breath Analysing Instruments
- Offences Against Court Security
- Offences By Officers of Certain Companies
- Offences By Persons Involved in Management of Bodies Corporate
- Offences Connected With Explosive Substances
- Offences for Failure to Comply With Statutory Duties
- Offences for Failure to Comply With Statutory Duties By Guarantor
- Offensive Behaviour By a Person in a Motor Vehicle in a Declared Area
- Other Acts Done in Preparation for, or Planning, Terrorist Acts
- Period of Retention
- Perjury
- Persistent Sexual Abuse of a Child Under the Age of 16
- Persons Found Drunk and Disorderly
- Perverting the Course of Justice
- Police Bribery and Corruption
- Possess Property Reasonably Suspected to be Stolen
- Possessing a Longarm Without License
- Possessing an Unregistered Longarm
- Possessing Certain Types of Handguns
- Possessing Controlled Drugs
- Possessing Controlled Precursors
- Possessing Controlled Weapon
- Possessing Housebreaking Implements
- Possessing Marketable Quantities of Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drugs or Border Controlled Plants
- Possessing Things Connected With Terrorist Attacks
- Possessing Trafficable Quantity of Unregistered Firearms
- Possessing Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drugs Or Border Controlled Plants
- Possessing, Carrying or Using a Handgun Without a Licence (Non-prohibited Person)
- Possessing, Using, or Carrying an Unregistered Handgun
- Possession of a Drug of Dependence
- Possession of Child Abuse Material
- Possession of Child Pornography
- Possession of Data With Intent to Commit Serious Computer Offence
- Possession of Precursor Chemicals
- Possession of Substance etc for Trafficking in a Drug of Dependence
- Possession of Tablet Press
- Posting Bills and Defacing Property
- Procurement etc. of Minor for Child Pornography
- Procuring Sexual Penetration By Threats or Fraud
- Procuring Sexual Penetration of a Child
- Producing, Supplying or Obtaining Data With Intent to Commit Serious Computer Offence
- Production of Child Pornography
- Prohibited Person Possessing Firearms
- Prohibited Weapons
- Providing or Receiving Training Connected With Terrorist Acts
- Public Nuisance
- Rape
- Reckless Conduct Endangering Life
- Reckless Conduct Endangering Serious Injury
- Recklessly Causing Serious Injury
- Recruiting for a Terrorist Organisation
- Refuse Breath Test – Drink Driving
- Refuse Drug Test – Drug Driving
- Refuse to Give Blood or Urine Sample – Drink Driving
- Refuse to Provide Further Sample – Drink Driving
- Refuse to Provide Oral Fluid – Drink Driving
- Refuse to Stop
- Requirement to Keep Proper Records
- Resisting Arrest
- Riot
- Rioters Demolishing Buildings
- Robbery
- Rout
- Setting Fire to Aircraft
- Sex Offender Registry – Failing to Comply With Reporting Conditions
- Sexual Offences – Persons With a Cognitive Impairment By Providers of Special Programs
- Sexual Penetration of 16 or 17 Year Old Child
- Sexual Servitude
- Stalking
- Supplying Drugs to Children
- Taking or Use Vehicle Without Owner’s Consent
- Tax Evasion
- Theft – Commonwealth
- Threatening Injury to Prevent Arrest
- Threats to Destroy or Damage Property
- Threats to Kill
- Threats to Safety of Aircraft
- Threat to Commit Sexual Offence
- Threat to Distribute Intimate Image
- Trafficking in a Drug of Dependence to a Child
- Trafficking in a Drug or Drugs of Dependence – Large Commercial Quantity
- Unauthorised Access, Modification or Impairment With Intent to Commit a Serious Offence
- Unauthorised Impairment of Electronic Communication – Commonwealth
- Unauthorised Modification of Data to Cause Impairment – State
- Unlawful Assembly
- Unlawfully Taking Control of an Aircraft
- Use of a Drug of Dependence
- Using of Firearms in the Commission of Offences
- Wilful Damage
- Wilfully Destroying Records
