الخميس، 3 فبراير 2011

What is Anti Social Behaviour?

Anti-social behaviour includes a variety of behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life.

Examples include:

? nuisance neighbours
? rowdy and nuisance behaviour
? yobbish behaviour and intimidating groups taking over public spaces
? vandalism, graffiti and fly-posting
? people dealing and buying drugs on the street
? people dumping rubbish and abandoning cars
? begging and anti-social drinking
? the misuse of fireworks

Anti-social behaviour doesnt just make life unpleasant. It holds back the regeneration of disadvantaged areas and creates an environment where more serious crime can take hold.

On any measure of polling or survey, anti-social behaviour matters - it has a negative effect on far too many peoples quality of life.

The Anti-social Behaviour Act applies only to England and Wales. There are similar but separate measures in force in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

What is an ASBO?

An anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) prevents those people responsible from carrying out an anti-social act or series of anti-social behaviour. ASBOs are designed to stop unacceptable and anti-social behaviour and prevent members of the public being targeted further by such acts. The ASBO, in theory, prevents the person responsible from being present in specific areas in local communities (known as exclusion zones).
How are they imposed?

ASBOs are imposed by magistrates courts after an application by a case officer who is usually an employee of the local council.
The case officer has to tell the court details such as the people and incidents involved and the restrictions of the proposed ASBO.
The court will also hear about welfare issues, family circumstances, attempts at mediation and warnings and evidence that the defendant has not been victimized or discriminated against.

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