Sunday 25 March 2007

What is AntiSocial Behaviour?

At the moment in the UK, ASBOs are everywhere, being handed to a large number of people for the sole purpose of curbing Anti-Social Behaviour. What constitutes to Anti Social Behaviour can be found on this Crime reduction website.

"Anti-social behaviour has a wide legal definition – to paraphrase the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, it is behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator

Anti social behaviour can come in many forms, some more obvious than others. This blog has been created to document the ASBOs that have been handed out from the serious and worrying to the trivial. Information will primarily from news stories, as well as personal accounts from others who experience anti social behaviour.

For more information on what The ASBO actually is, here is an article from the BBC that provides a Q&A about Anti Social Behaviour Orders.

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