Coventry New Deal for Communities

Anti Social Behaviour

The term anti-social behaviour covers a wide range of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life. Terms such as ‘nuisance’, ‘disorder’ and ‘harassment’ are also used to describe some of this behaviour.
Examples include:

Nuisance neighbours
Yobbish behaviour and intimidating groups taking over public spaces
Vandalism, graffiti and fly-posting
People dealing and buying drugs on the street
People dumping rubbish and abandoned cars
Begging and anti-social drinking
The misuse of fireworks
Reckless driving of mini-motorbikes.

Anti-social behaviour is any that caused or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household' as the perpetrator.

Why is it important?

Anti-social behaviour ruins lives. It doesn’t just make life unpleasant; it prevents the renewal of disadvantaged areas and creates an environment where more serious crime can take hold.
Anti-social behaviour is a major issue in some of the UK’s more deprived or disadvantaged communities.

Anti-social behaviour is also expensive. It is estimated to cost the British taxpayer £3.4bn a year.

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