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ASBO nation: The criminalisation of nuisance

Peter Squires

Abstract

Anti-social behaviour (ASB) was a major preoccupation of New Labour's project of social and political renewal, with Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) a controversial addition to crime and disorder management powers. Thought by some to be a dangerous extension of the power to criminalise, by others as a vital dimension of local governance, there remains a concerning lack of evidence as to whether or not they compound social exclusion. This collection brings together opinion, commentary, research evidence, professional guidance, debate and critique in order to understand the phenomenon of ant ... More

Keywords: anti-social behaviour, New Labour, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, governance, social exclusion, public policy, social policy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9781847420282
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847420282.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Peter Squires, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Introduction: why ‘anti-social behaviour’? Debating ASBOs

Peter Squires

Part One Managing anti-social behaviour: priorities and approaches

One Why tackle anti-social behaviour?

Jessica Jacobson, Andrew Millie, and Mike Hough

Two Resilient Fabians? Anti-social behaviour and community safety work in Wales

Adam Edwards, and Gordon Hughes

Three Towards a balanced and practical approach to anti-social behaviour management

Gillian Mayfield, and Andy Mills

Four Lost in translation: interpreting and implementing anti-social behaviour policies

Roger Matthews, and Daniel Briggs

Part Two Anti-social behaviour management: emerging issues

Five Governing through localism, contract and community: evidence from anti-social behaviour strategies in Scotland

Rionach Casey, and John Flint

Six Anti-social behaviour and minority ethnic populations

David Prior, and Basia Spalek

Seven The ASBO and the shift to punishment

Burney Elizabeth

Eight A Probation officer’s story

Mike Guilfoyle

Part Three Anti-social behaviour case studies: particular social groups affected by anti-social behaviour policies

Nine Rationalising family intervention projects

Sadie Parr, and Judy Nixon

Ten Street life, neighbourhood policing and ‘the community’

Stephen Moore

Eleven Room for resistance? Parenting Orders, disciplinary power and the production of ‘the bad parent’

Amanda Holt

Twelve Cameras, cops and contracts: what anti-social behaviour management feels like to young people

Carlie Goldsmith

Thirteen ASBO youth: rhetoric and realities

Brian McIntosh

Fourteen ‘Binge drinking’, anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related disorder: examining the 2003 Licensing Act

Paul Norris, and Derek Williams

Fifteen The criminalisation of intoxication1

Fiona Measham, and Karenza Moore

Sixteen ASBOs and working women: a new revolving door?

Jo Phoenix

Part Four Anti-ASBO: criticising the ASBO industry

Seventeen ‘ASBOmania’1

Shami Chakrabarti, and Jago Russell

Eighteen The responsibility of respecting justice: an open challenge to Tony Blair’s successors

Dawn E. Stephen

Nineteen Asocial not anti-social: the ‘Respect Agenda’ and the ‘therapeutic me’

Stuart Waiton

Twenty Conclusion: the future of anti-social behaviour?

Peter Squires

End Matter

Index