Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is any activity that impacts on other people in a negative way. Anti-social behaviour remains a serious issue in the UK with around 66,000 reports of ASB made to authorities each day (Source: One day count of anti-social behaviour: September 10 2003).
What is ASB?
Anti-social behaviour includes a variety of behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life.
Examples include:
nuisance neighbours
rowdy and nuisance behaviour
yobbish behaviour and intimidating groups taking over public spaces
vandalism, graffiti and fly-posting
people dealing and buying drugs on the street
people dumping rubbish and abandoning cars
begging and anti-social drinking
the misuse of fireworks
Anti-social behaviour doesnt just make life unpleasant. It holds back the regeneration of disadvantaged areas and creates an environment where more serious crime can take hold.
On any measure of polling or survey, anti-social behaviour matters – it has a negative effect on far too many peoples quality of life.
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