Antisocial behaviour

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Antisocial behaviour

Antisocial behaviour is an accumulation category of relatively small crimes that highly influence the security perception of citizens.

Description

The exact crimes that fall in this category vary from nation to nation, with the ruling law there, but examples of crimes that fall within this category are:

  1. Breach of the peace
  2. Conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress
  3. Affray (extending to both groups and single persons)
  4. Violent disorder
  5. Drunk and disorderly behaviour
  6. Drunk and incapable behaviour
  7. Breach of local banning orders

Attributing circumstances

Circumstances that attribute to the occurance of antisocial behaviour, are [1]:

  • Low standards of living
  • Low levels of social cohesion
  • low levels of social involvement
  • Low amounts or quality of reaction on incidents
  • Presence of young people

Impacts

Measures

Footnotes and references

  1. To be underpinned with literature references

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