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- Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is often treated as ‘low-level crime’ or even as sub-criminal but its impact can be deeply injurious and it is often targeted against people who are vulnerable already.
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Jan 24, 2022 · The victims' commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, says anti-social behaviour is often seen as "a sort of sub-crime". Anti-social behaviour can devastate lives. Yet BBC Panorama...
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Understanding Whom ASB Impacts
- Understanding The Impact of ASB on Individuals
- Wider Impacts Beyond The Individual
- Personal Factors Influencing ASB Impacts
- The Impact of The Response to Reporting ASB
Background and context
Despite often being described as ‘low-level crime’, existing evidence suggests anti-social behaviour (ASB) can result in a range of negative emotional, behavioural, social, health and financial impacts. These include negative mental health effects, avoidance behaviours and decreased economic productivity. While existing evidence explores what the impacts of ASBare, the Home Office commissioned Ipsos to conduct mixed methods research to better understand the impacts on victims and their wider...
1.1 Background
Despite often being described as ‘low-level crime’[footnote 3], existing evidence suggests that ASB can result in a range of negative emotional, behavioural, social, health and financial impacts. ASB has been linked to personal harm including avoidance behaviours, changed routines and an impact on quality of life[footnote 4]. Other implications of ASB include negative mental health, such as living in fear and increased stress and anxiety, leading to experiences of panic attacks and depression...
1.2 Research objectives
The Home Office commissioned Ipsos to conduct research to better understand the impacts of ASBon victims and their wider community. Specifically, this research sought to: 1. improve current understanding of the individual impacts of ASBon people who have experienced or witnessed it, including quantifying these impacts 2. explore the wider impacts of ASBbeyond the individual, such as impacts on the community and overall trust in institutions, including quantifying these impacts 3. identify dif...
This Section explores how the perception and experience of ASB vary among different demographic groups. It, therefore, allows for a better understanding of how the impacts of ASB tend to be distributed among different groups of people and how this can ultimately influence the level of impact ASBhas on an individual and their wider network. It concl...
This Section explores the impact that different types of ASB can have on those who experience or witness it. The survey covered a range of impacts that can affect an individual’s quality of life, including emotional and behavioural impacts. These impacts were also explored at length in the interviews with the public, which provided detailed example...
This Section explores the impacts of ASBthat go beyond the individuals who have experienced or witnessed it, including their personal networks, their communities and more broadly their perceptions of institutions.
Personal, situational and demographic factors had a role in determining which impacts were felt more severely and by whom. These included age, gender, region/geographic area, income level/deprivation, pre-existing mental or physical health conditions as well as being pregnant/having children. Understanding which groups experience a more substantial...
This Section explores the role of reporting experiences on the impacts of ASB, outlining the negative impacts that can emerge when a reporting experience does not happen as expected. It also highlights how the negative impacts of ASBcould be reduced by experiencing a positive reporting process Among other factors, the impact of ASB influenced the l...
What is anti-social behaviour? Acting in a manner that has “caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as the perpetrator." The Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Anti-social behaviour is a wide range of unacceptable activity, and includes things like:-
- Vehicle abandoned: This covers vehicles that appear to have been left by their owner, rather than stolen and abandoned. It includes scrap or ‘end of life’ vehicles and those damaged at the scene of a road traffic collision that have been abandoned and aren’t awaiting recovery.
- Vehicle nuisance or inappropriate use: This relates to vehicles being used in acts such as street cruising (driving up and down the street causing annoyance and bothering other road users), vehicle convoys and riding or driving on land other than a road.
- Rowdy or inconsiderate behaviour: This refers to general nuisance behaviour in a public place or a place to which the public have access, such as private clubs.
- Rowdy or nuisance neighbours: This covers any rowdy behaviour or general nuisance caused by neighbours, including boundary and parking disputes. It also covers noise nuisance from parties or playing loud music.
Oct 12, 2020 · Much ASB is sub-criminal, which means the behaviours are neither illegal nor subject to criminal proceedings. However, ASB is sanctionable through a range of tools and powers provided by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014). As a result of the flexible definition, the nature of ASB victimisation is varied.
- Vicky Heap
- 2021
There are three main categories for antisocial behaviour, depending on how many people are affected: Personal antisocial behaviour is when a person targets a specific individual or group. Nuisance antisocial behaviour is when a person causes trouble, annoyance or suffering to a community.
Nov 22, 2021 · The most common sub-types of anti-social behaviour were drinking or drunken behaviour, groups loitering, inconsiderate behaviour (e.g., fireworks and throwing stones) and vehicle related anti-social behaviour (e.g., inconvenient parking or speed).
