'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge
range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines
as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British
government's crime control policy. At the same time 'anti-social
behaviour' has provided the lever for control mechanisms ranging
from the draconian to the merely bureaucratic, most notably in the
shape of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order, or ASBO.
This book seeks to explain why anti-social behaviour, as a focus
of political rhetoric, legislative activity and social action, has
gained such a high profile in Britain in recent years, and it
provides a critical examination of current policies of enforcement
and exclusion. It examines both the political roots of the variety
of new measures which have been introduced and also the deeper
social explanations for the unease expressed about anti-social
behaviour more generally.
This updated new edition of Making People Behave takes full
account of recent legal and policy changes, including the 'Respect'
agenda, as well as relevant research on the subject. It also
contains two wholly new chapters, one of them devoted to the
expanding web of behaviour controls, the other on Scotland which
provides an alternative to the enforcement-oriented approach
evident in England and Wales complementing the wider coverage in
the book of developments in North America and Europe.
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