Rising Anti-Social Behaviour Rate

• crime surveys show a high level of public concern on anti-social crimes
• Young sees the concern on anti-social crime as a result of 'defining deviance up'
• ASBOs in 1998 and IPBAs in 2015 and Criminal Behaviour Orders (2024)
• Anti Social Behaviour controls features:

  1. blurring boundaries of crime to manufacture more crime
  2. subjective definition
  3. flexibility to widen the net and cause discrimination
• Crime rate has fallen since 1990s but we have manufactured a new crime wave