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Jessica Jacobson
Jessica
Jacobson
Andrew Millie
Andrew
Millie
Mike Hough
Mike
Hough
Tackling anti-social behaviour : a critical review
Loughborough University
2008
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Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
2008-10-22 14:26:46
Online resource
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/Tackling_anti-social_behaviour_a_critical_review/9470999
Over the past decade, anti-social behaviour (henceforth referred to as ASB) has
become a focus of much policy-making and debate within central and local
government and the police. Clear definitions of ASB are lacking, but the term is
usually understood to refer to relatively minor criminal activity and non-criminal
‘nuisance’ behaviour that affects the social and/or physical environment of public or
semi-public places. The term ASB is frequently used synonymously with ‘disorder’,
and is sometimes associated with the concept of ‘incivilities’.
Policy-makers and strategists, at national and local levels alike, reiterate that
problems of ASB can have a massively detrimental effect on neighbourhoods as a
whole, and on the lives of individuals. Hence strenuous and wide-ranging efforts are
being made to support, develop and implement schemes for tackling ASB – involving
a variety of enforcement and preventive measures.