Ebook: Making People Behave : Anti-social Behaviour, Politics and Policy
Author: Burney Elizabeth
- Tags: Deviant behavior -- Government policy -- Great Britain., Deviant behavior., Interpersonal conflict -- Government policy -- Great Britain., Nuisances., Social control.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken
- Edition: 2nd ed
- Language: English
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'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's crime control policy. At the same time 'anti-social behaviour' has provided the lever for control mechanisms ranging from the draconian to the merely bureaucratic, most notably in the shape of the Anti-Social Read more...
Abstract: 'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's crime control policy. At the same time 'anti-social behaviour' has provided the lever for control mechanisms ranging from the draconian to the merely bureaucratic, most notably in the shape of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order, or ASBO. This book seeks to explain why anti-social behaviour, as a focus of political rhetoric, legislative activity and social action, has gained such a high profil