Useful for PSHE

1. ASBOs

2. General information
 An Anti-Social Behaviour Order or ASBO in the United
Kingdom and in the republic of Ireland [1] is a civil order
made against a person who has been shown, on the balance
of evidence, to have engaged in anti-social behaviour,
 Breaking an ASBO can render up to five years
imprisonment.
 In the UK, there has been criticism that an ASBO is
sometimes viewed as a badge of honour by youth. Many see
the ASBO connected with young delinquents.[2]
 Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are court orders
which forbid specific threatening or intimidating actions.

3.  An ASBO can ban a person from:
 threatening, intimidating or disruptive actions
 spending time with a particular group of friends
 visiting certain areas
 ASBOs are in effect for a minimum of two years, and can be
longer. They are designed to protect specific victims, neighbours,
or even whole communities from behaviour that has frightened
or intimidated them, or damaged their quality of life.
 These are civil orders - not criminal penalties – so they won’t
appear on a suspect's criminal record. However, if that person
breaches an ASBO, they have committed a criminal offence,
which is punishable by a fine or up to five years in prison

4. Who can call for an ASBO?
 Any one of the following agencies can apply for an
ASBO to be issued against a trouble-maker:
 local authorities
 police forces
 registered social landlords and housing action trusts
 The ASBO or 'Anti-Social Behaviour Order' had been
hailed as the solution to much of the inappropriate
and anti-social behaviour in our communities today, in
the United Kingdom.

5.  Whatever your views, ASBO's are in force for a variety of reasons and
across the UK. Anti-Social Behaviour orders can be implemented
against any individual who is over the age of ten (10) years. ASBO’s can
only be ultimately successful when they are based on an action which is
in partnership with all the relevant agencies (the police, local
authorities, youth offending teams, registered social landlords, etc).
 ASBO's can help protect members of a community from those people
who insist on making the lives of others a misery, but may not be
successfully prosecuted through just one single incident of
inappropriate behaviour. In this instance, those members of society
that behave irresponsibly during a consistent time period can be
tackled via an order. They are not designed to be a replacement for
other existing crime dealing methods or make unlawful behaviour
acceptable.