Antisocial behaviour

Antisocial behaviour

A street fight, an example of Violent disorder.

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 ordersConduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress
8. Substance misuse such as glue sniffing
9. Drinking alcohol on the streets /in public areas where banned
10. Noise coming from business / alarms / pubs and clubs
11. Begging
12. Prostitution related activity such as curb crawling and loitering
13. Vehicle nuisance such as revving engines, racing, wheel and horn sounding
14. Environmental damage such as littering/dumping
15. Pubs or clubs serving alcohol after hours
16. Hate incidents where abuse involves race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability

Attributing circumstances

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

• 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

The impacts of antisocial behaviour are diverse and can be very relevant to the security perception of citizens, but are usually minor in direct impact (such as costs, deaths and wounded resulting directly from the incident) but can amount to major indirect impacts (such as feelings of unsafety, loss of commercial enterprise, depreciation of immovables, etcetera).

Measures

Potential measures that can mitigate the likelihood or impact of assault, are:

• Surveillance
• Reaction force
• "designing out" approaches (designing out crime)
• Directing flows of people

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