Asbo attack as Gov tells councils to Persecute youth or else!

Antisocial behaviour crackdown a gimmickGuardian Unlimited, UK - 4 hours agoMinisters were accused today of failing to get to grips with antisocial behaviour after plans were revealed to give 40 areas with the worst problems extra ...

But in Wales the Welsh Assembly government polciy is different. Will they with stand the pressure and take a lead!

"Pevention is better than cure and they should be regarded very much as a last resort" says Edwina Hart and should only be invoked when all other means of curbing the nuisance behaviour have been.
Two of the Welsh Chief Constables responded to a request from the Minister for their views on the effectiveness of ASBOs; “There is a danger that ASBOs will be held up as a panacea to crime problems and this gives a false impression to the public who are then encouraged to look upon the numbers of ASBOs as an indicator of success. ASBOs should only be seen as one element in a menu of options.“

Historical equivalents of 'anti-social behaviour'

Rising fear of youth crime saw 'ungovernable' or 'incorrigible' children ordered into a reform programme as far back as 1806, according to archive material made available by the young people's charity Rainer.

The historical equivalent of 'anti-social behaviour' saw children as young as nine referred to the Philanthropic Society in an attempt to reform them before they became involved in crime.


Will McMahon, of think-tank the Crime and Society Foundation, says that government is moving social policy backwards in two ways: first, through the re-emergence of the “problem family”, a concept stemming from the 1950s which blames families themselves for their social problems; second, by the sense of déjà vu that long-serving social care professionals will feel as a result of the government’s approach. “The government is repeating the cycle of analysis by Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative social services minister in the 1970s, which is that problem families are the source of all our problems,” McMahon says.

Is it value for money?
Again the government for a few cherry-picked offences -hat they say in "trailblazer" areas it has pumped in a lot of money - crime and the perception of crime has gone down a tiny amount!

What they say in other countries!
No respect for Blair's respect zonesIndependent Online, South Africa - 7 hours agoLondon - The British government was accused on Wednesday of failing to get to grips with anti-social behaviour after plans were revealed to give special ...