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This House would scrap Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (UK)
This House would scrap Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (UK)
This is a discussion on the Debatabase item titled: This House would scrap Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (UK).Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!
1 year 3 weeks ago
I am not convinced that this is going to mean much more than a change in name but with everything carrying on as usual. Theresa May says they will be faster, this is a difference of degree not policy. The same is true with her community triggers that will mean the police must act after a certain number of complaints, this is pretty much what happens already anyway.
1 year 3 weeks ago
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British Home Secretary Theresa May is intending to replace the Anti-Social Bahaviour Orders (ASBOs) that are currently the primary instrument used by the police to prevent people from regularly behaving in ways that are considered disruptive or intimidating by the rest of the community. With the new replacement Criminal Behaviour Orders the Government aims to “make powers simpler, quicker, easier to enforce, more flexible and more effective” which could well mean a large increase in the number of these new ASBOs being used. However this seems unlikely to deal with many of the issues with ASBOs which did not involve a court unless they were broken, were too widely used as a blanket cure for all ills and did not get to the heart of why someone was being anti-social in the first place.
This unfortunately means that this old Anti-Social Behaviour Orders debate will be in need of some major updating in the next year or so, would anyone like to volunteer?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18155579