Anti-Social Behaviour Orders - A Culture of Control?

This book vigorously challenges the dominant academic view of ASBOs as erroneous tools of social control, and offers an alternative perspective on anti-social behaviour management which argues that ASBOs are capable of enabling a positive process of engagement among local authorities, housing professionals and residents.

List of contents

Preface Introduction The End of Respect? Anti-Social Behaviour: The Political Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour: The Historical Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Housing ASBOs in Practice ASBOs and the Targeting of Undesirable Persons Reflections on ASBOs as Social Aegis

About the author

JANE DONOGHUE is Deputy Director of Research and Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Reading, UK. She specialises in the study of anti-social behaviour management and is currently conducting research on anti-social behaviour response courts in England and Wales funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Summary

This book vigorously challenges the dominant academic view of ASBOs as erroneous tools of social control, and offers an alternative perspective on anti-social behaviour management which argues that ASBOs are capable of enabling a positive process of engagement among local authorities, housing professionals and residents.

Additional text

'It was time for a book presenting a more positive commentary on the British government's anti-social behaviour policy, and this is it.' - The Howard Journal

'Donoghue provides a helpful reminder of [...] the broadness of the definition of anti-social behaviour' The British Journal of Criminology

Report

'It was time for a book presenting a more positive commentary on the British government's anti-social behaviour policy, and this is it.' - The Howard Journal
'Donoghue provides a helpful reminder of [...] the broadness of the definition of anti-social behaviour' The British Journal of Criminology

Product details

• Authors: J Donoghue, J. Donoghue
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349369355
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36935-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Illustrations: IX, 180 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; B, Social Inequality, popular science, Life Sciences, Criminology, Criminal Law, Social Policy, Social & ethical issues, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Technology and Engineering, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Popular works, Popular Science, general, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Juvenile delinquents, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Criminal law: procedure & offences, behavior;culture;local authorities;management