Anti-social behaviour.

What is determined by anti-social behaviour? According to the home office: ‘Anti-social behaviour is any aggressive, intimidating or destructive activity that damages or destroys another person's quality of life.’ So I think it is pretty fair to say that this kind of behaviour is BAD.

When this type of behaviour is discovered by police, people are given an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order) which entails that a person which has caused anti-social behaviour, will have to abide by the rules of the agreement to try and stop the same behaviour being committed again. For the most part this entails the person having a curfew to adhere to in which they have to be at home by a certain time. But does this really work? I don’t believe so, just because a person has a time in which they have to be off the streets, doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to exhibit the same behaviour at other times throughout the day.

This website: http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/asbos/asbos2.htm includes statistics for the amount of ASBO’s issued throughout the UK between April 1999 and December 2007. Interestingly the West Midlands came in third with a total of 1168, second place is Greater Manchester with 1642 and in first place is Greater London with a total of 1808. Nice to know that I reside in one of the most anti-social areas.

I guess only time will tell whether ASBO’s actually work. I look forward to seeing a table of statistics in 2017 which will show whether anti-social behaviour has risen or fallen since the last review.