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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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1 results foundAuthor: Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Title: Anti-Social Behaviour: Living a Nightmare Summary: The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 defines anti-social behaviour as: (a) conduct that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person, (b) conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to a person in relation to that person's occupation of residential premises, or (c) conduct capable of causing housing-related nuisance or annoyance to any person. Experience of ASB is on the rise. In the year ending December 2018, the Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 37 per cent of respondents had experienced or witnessed ASB in their local area (defined as within a 15-minute walk of the respondents home) (Office for National Statistics 2019a). This is the highest percentage recorded since this data was first collected. Despite often being described as 'low level crime', the accumulative impact of ASB can cause immense distress and suffering for victims, affecting their health, sleep, work, relationships and leaving victims feeling unsafe in their own home, which should be their place of sanctuary. ASB can often be symptomatic of more serious behaviour involving crime. For example, drug gangs taking over or 'cuckooing' a property to sell drugs generates a great deal of anti-social behaviour and is also symptom of serious violence and drug offences. Despite increased incidents of ASB, its devastating effects on victims and its links with serious crime, ASB seems to have fallen out of discussion in the media and amongst criminal justice agencies. Recording of ASB has changed. Incidents are now recorded individually rather than being under the heading of ASB. This means that the focus has gone from the cumulative effect of multiple ASB incidents to the individual crime types. The public and political focus has switched to serious violence, forgetting that ASB can be its precursor and failing to recognise the impact on the communities and individuals affected by it. This report draws together three key sources of research to identify the current levels of experience and perception of ASB across different demographic types of victim, the availability and effectiveness of the Community Trigger in resolving ASB and linking victims' lived experiences of ASB with what is known to best support victims of crime. Details: London: Author, 2019. 44p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 13, 2019 at: https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/victcomm2-prod-storage-119w3o4kq2z48/uploads/2019/04/ASB-report.pdf Year: 0 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/victcomm2-prod-storage-119w3o4kq2z48/uploads/2019/04/ASB-report.pdf Shelf Number: 156407 Keywords: Antisocial Behavior Harassment Housing Disturbances Nuisance Behavior Victims Support |