Introduction
This essay examines the Anti-social behaviour Orders, that were implemented in the United Kingdom, and disputes the fact that it socially excludes already ostracized and disadvantaged persons within society. This is due that it only removes the problem behaviours from particular environments and doesn’t address the cause of the offending. Firstly, this essay will address antisocial behaviour orders and the will give a brief overview of there implementation and there indented outcome. It will then go onto discuss crime preventions theories that where taken into consideration when designing theses orders, such as developmental crime prevention, primary prevention and differential association. The essay will then review the detrimental …show more content…
This legislation was designed with the evidence that there is a correlation between, antisocial behaviour and later serious crime. Therefore, the government implemented these orders through legislation to criminalise antisocial behaviour with the aim of early intervention (Kirby, 2012). These orders where designed to protect the community from any behaviour with the potential to result in, alarm, harassment or distress within the public, and also entails specific conditions in which an individual must abide by that prohibit them from carrying out particular anti-social behaviours, such as banning them from particular environments such as local parks, where they may carry out this antisocial acts. Therefore, banning them from where they carry out their antisocial behaviour, they are therefore theoretically prevented from participating in the measure (The Crown Prosecution Service, n.d). ASBOs where primarily intended to target society as a whole and were not primarily created to single out certain demographics within society, however it was found that the most vulnerable people within our society where largely over-represented and marginalised within ASBOs such as children, youth, persons who are mentally and psychically ill, and people from low social economic areas (Cino,2014). These orders are where not indented …show more content…
However, when a ASBO is taken out upon a young person, it its more than likely that it will prohibit from associating with there friends. This then isolation from their community may not be as effective as implementing different preventive strategies to prevent crime, such as youth groups, as many of these young people are also suffering multiple disadvantages such as violent, or dysfunction home settings and find it easy to associate with people who understand their situation. To then be deprived of spending time away from there peers and support system, especially when some ASBO orders are over a minimum two-year period, can be detrimental to the wellbeing for the young adults, as they have then lost there support network and a way to escape their home life. While most youth except their behaviour that gave them an Anti-Social Behaviour Order was not expectable, they don’t believe the conditions of there orders where proportionate, to the offences that they committed (Bateman, 2007). One of the participants from Batemans, 2007 study, stated, “You should be punished for setting fire to a car, but shouldn 't go to prison for being with your friends or walking on the wrong road. That 's a breach of civil rights - it should never be allowed!”. What these orders fail to realise, is that the way to stop offending within certain groups varies, as
This essay examines the Anti-social behaviour Orders, that were implemented in the United Kingdom, and disputes the fact that it socially excludes already ostracized and disadvantaged persons within society. This is due that it only removes the problem behaviours from particular environments and doesn’t address the cause of the offending. Firstly, this essay will address antisocial behaviour orders and the will give a brief overview of there implementation and there indented outcome. It will then go onto discuss crime preventions theories that where taken into consideration when designing theses orders, such as developmental crime prevention, primary prevention and differential association. The essay will then review the detrimental …show more content…
This legislation was designed with the evidence that there is a correlation between, antisocial behaviour and later serious crime. Therefore, the government implemented these orders through legislation to criminalise antisocial behaviour with the aim of early intervention (Kirby, 2012). These orders where designed to protect the community from any behaviour with the potential to result in, alarm, harassment or distress within the public, and also entails specific conditions in which an individual must abide by that prohibit them from carrying out particular anti-social behaviours, such as banning them from particular environments such as local parks, where they may carry out this antisocial acts. Therefore, banning them from where they carry out their antisocial behaviour, they are therefore theoretically prevented from participating in the measure (The Crown Prosecution Service, n.d). ASBOs where primarily intended to target society as a whole and were not primarily created to single out certain demographics within society, however it was found that the most vulnerable people within our society where largely over-represented and marginalised within ASBOs such as children, youth, persons who are mentally and psychically ill, and people from low social economic areas (Cino,2014). These orders are where not indented …show more content…
However, when a ASBO is taken out upon a young person, it its more than likely that it will prohibit from associating with there friends. This then isolation from their community may not be as effective as implementing different preventive strategies to prevent crime, such as youth groups, as many of these young people are also suffering multiple disadvantages such as violent, or dysfunction home settings and find it easy to associate with people who understand their situation. To then be deprived of spending time away from there peers and support system, especially when some ASBO orders are over a minimum two-year period, can be detrimental to the wellbeing for the young adults, as they have then lost there support network and a way to escape their home life. While most youth except their behaviour that gave them an Anti-Social Behaviour Order was not expectable, they don’t believe the conditions of there orders where proportionate, to the offences that they committed (Bateman, 2007). One of the participants from Batemans, 2007 study, stated, “You should be punished for setting fire to a car, but shouldn 't go to prison for being with your friends or walking on the wrong road. That 's a breach of civil rights - it should never be allowed!”. What these orders fail to realise, is that the way to stop offending within certain groups varies, as