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Behaviour Order (behaviour + order)

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Law and Criminology100%

Selected Abstracts

Talking Tough, Acting Coy: What Happened to the Anti,Social Behaviour Order?

THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 5 2002
Elizabeth Burney
The government blames local authorities for using anti,social behaviour orders too little. Are they really to be blamed? What are the likely reasons for the very patchy support of the ASBO? The article examines a range of explanations, including that local crime and disorder partnerships, paradoxically having been told by the government to consult and innovate, are adopting a variety of other methods for suppressing anti,social conduct. Patterns of ASBO usage are examined, revealing that it is essentially yet another tool for dealing with persistent young offenders. Legislation for extending the scope and availability of ASBOs is critically appraised. [source]

A Suicidal Woman, Roaming Pigs and a Noisy Trampolinist: Refining the ASBO's Definition of ,Anti-Social Behaviour'

THE MODERN LAW REVIEW, Issue 2 2006
Stuart Macdonald
This article discusses the definition of anti-social behaviour employed by section 1(1)(a) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 for the purposes of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order. It argues that, if the ASBO is to remain at the forefront of the Government's campaign against anti-social behaviour, this section should be amended. The article begins by outlining the claimed benefits of, and critics' concerns about, the definition, arguing that the difference of opinion stems from different views of state power. It then argues that the ASBO has been employed for social control, often at the expense of more constructive forms of intervention, and that this has shown New Labour's willingness to vest enforcement agencies with the wide discretion conferred by section 1(1)(a) to have been misplaced. Finally, it proposes a refined version of section 1(1), which focuses the Order on the cases for which it was purportedly designed whilst maintaining any benefits of the broad definitional approach currently taken in section 1(1)(a). [source]

Governance through Publicity: Anti-social Behaviour Orders, Young People, and the Problematization of the Right to Anonymity

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 3 2007
Neil Cobb
Since the early twentieth century, young people under eighteen involved in legal proceedings have been granted a degree of protection from the glare of media publicity. One controversial consequence of recent reforms of the anti-social behaviour order (ASBO), however, is the incremental reduction in the anonymity rights available to those subject to the mechanism, together with calls by the Home Office for details of such individuals to be publicized as a matter of course. Numerous commentators have criticized the government accordingly for reinstating the draconian practice of ,naming and shaming'. This paper contends that these developments can be usefully analysed through the lens of Foucault's work on state governance. It explores, in particular, how challenges to the right reflect both the fall of anonymity and the rise of publicity in the governance of what I term ,ASBO subjects', together with the communities in which they live, under ,advanced liberal' rule. [source]