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LEGISLATION
GOVERNMENT REPORTS AND GUIDELINES
- Anti-social behaviour - fifth report of session 2004-05 - House of Commons Home Affairs Committee (22/3/05)
- Police service, crime and anti-social behaviour in Wales - Welsh affairs committee fourth report (15/3/05)
- Publicising ASBOs - Guidance from Home Office (March 2005)
- Use of leaflets to publicise ASBOs - Home Office step-by-step guide
- Applying for an ASBO - Home Office step-by-step guide
- 'Yobs will face the consequences of their actions' - Charles Clarke - Home Office press release (1/3/05)
- A guide to Law and Procedure in the Magistrates' Court - Justice Clerk's Society good practice guide (April 2004)
- Together website ASBO articles
- Legal Services Commission ASBO guidance (pdf)
- Using ASBOs and other Civil Enforcement (pdf) - Government guidelines published on their Together Campaign website
- Implementing Anti-social Behaviour Orders: messages for practioners (pdf) - Home Office guidelines
- Guidance on drawing up local ASBO protocols - Home Office guidelines
MEDIA COVERAGE AND ANALYSIS
- Scrap ASBOs, says leading lawyer - Frances Gibb The Times (3/9/07)
- Drunk disorderly: Britain's middle-class Asbos - Marie Woolf & Susie Mesure The Independent (2/9/07)
- Is it time to rethink the ASBO? - Frances Gibb The Times (28/8/07)
- You can't ban someone from being a druggie - Frances Gibb The Times (28/8/07)
- Courts urged to avoid jail for Asbo breaches - Alan Travis The Guardian (17/8/07)
- Every Asbo a failure, says Balls, in break with Blair era on crime - Tania Branigan The Guardian (28/7/07)
- New drive to reduce number of Asbos issued - Nigel Morris The Independent (28/7/07)
- Asbo capital condemned for 'abuse of power' - Lucy Ward The Guardian (4/7/07)
- Senior police officer raises doubts about the use of Asbos - Pat Hurst The Independent (4/7/07)
- Reshuffle creates confusion over Asbos - Jill Sherman The Times (29/6/07)
- Judge criticises 'namby pamby' Asbos - The Telegraph (23/5/07)
- New Labour, New Britain: Taking liberties with our liberties - Ed Caesar The Independent (23/4/07)
- The banned play on - Louise France The Observer (22/4/07)
- Freedom of information: Information Commissioner rules Asbo names be released - Robert Verkaik The Independent (16/3/07)
- Asbos should impose weekly sport on young offenders, says Caborn - Paul Kelso The Guardian (5/2/07)
- I've got it, Mr Reid: middle-class ASBOs - Libby Purves The Times (30/1/07)
- Rumpole challenges the Asbo in an attack on Labour's criminal record - Robert Verkaik The Independent (28/12/06)
- No ASBO without victim present - The Times (18/12/06)
- Britain's official 'yob capital' turns its back on Asbos - Patrick Barkham The Guardian (9/12/06)
- Asbos failing to rein in hard core of persistent offenders, says report - Alan Travis The Guardian (7/12/06)
- Courts issue 3,500 Asbos but over half are ignored - Nigel Morris The Independent (7/12/06)
- Our nation of obsessive teen-haters must wake from its complacency - Polly Toynbee The Guardian (3/11/06)
- Why the young treat Asbos as glamorous - Joan Bakewell The Independent (3/11/06)
- Teenagers see Asbos as badge of honour - Alan Travis The Guardian (2/11/06)
- Named, shamed, detained and forgotten - Jason Pollard Index Online (19/9/06)
- 'It's all about reputation' - Patrick Barkham The Guardian (4/8/06)
- Tarred with the same brush - Annemarie Flanagan The Guardian (8/5/06)
- Asbos: the politics of fear - Kelly Hilditch Socialist Worker Online (6/5/06)
- Softly-softly stance helps tackle mall's street drinkers - Andrew Picken Scotsman (1/5/06)
- Demonised: we lock them up. We give them Asbos. But is our fear of kids making them worse? - Sophie Goodchild The Independent (26/4/06)
- Asbos 'put the mark of Cain on children' - George Jones Telegraph (24/4/06)
- Asbos 'create as many problems as they solve', warns criminologist - Aled Blake ic Wales website (20/4/06)
- Mum's the word - Paul Wheeler The Guardian (12/4/06)
- High Court judges deride 'vague and unclear' Asbos - Daily Mail (5/4/06)
- Too much use of Asbos for teenagers, says ex-prison head - Alan Travis The Guardian (30/3/06)
- Why we should care a bit more - Richard Reeves Observer (19/2/06)
- Crime and anti-social behaviour - Socialist Party (19/1/06)
- Yobs are laughing off their Asbos - James Slack Daily Mail (14/1/06)
- Record number of Asbos but four in 10 are broken - John Steele Telegraph (21/12/05)
- The Year of the Asbo - Ed West Sunday Telegraph (18/12/05)
- ASBOs on trial - BBC News website (20/11/05)
- No cure for the lost boys - Terri Dowty The Guardian (3/11/05)
- The state of ASBO Britain - the rise of intolerance - Max Rowlands ECLN Website (19/10/05)
- The denial of children's rights and liberties in the UK and the North of Ireland - Phil Scraton ECLN Website (19/10/05)
- Asbos: what the Dickens is going on? - Matt Foot Socialist Worker (8/10/05)
- How the mania for Asbos is turning children into victims - Andrew Gilligan Evening Standard (15/8/05)
- Tourette's children 'given asbos' - Jane Elliott BBC News Online (15/8/05)
- Rough justice - John Bell The Guardian (10/8/05)
- Time for last orders - John Pring Disability Now (July 2005)
- The Asbo Generation - Robert Verkaik The Independent (20/6/05)
- Welcome to Asbo Nation - Martin Bright, Anushka Asthana & Lauren Thompson The Observer (12/6/05)
- Asbo aggro - Jon Robins The Guardian (7/6/05)
- A sobering snapshot of Asbomania - Shami Chakrabarti The Guardian (9/6/05)
- Asbos will just turn bored youngsters into criminals - Sarah Carey The Sunday Times (1/5/05)
- Napo briefing for the launch of Asbo Concern - Contains statistics, analysis and numerous case studies (April 2005)
- A triumph of hearsay and hysteria - Matt Foot The Guardian (5/4/05)
- Life on the knife edge - Mary Riddell The Observer (3/4/05)
- Out-of-control Asbos a 'menace to society' - Robert Verkaik The Independent (2/4/05)
- Institutionalised Spite - Chris Quayle Red Pepper (April 2005)
- A law for the vindictive - Nick Cohen The Observer (27/3/05)
- Mob justice or yob control? - Louise Casey & Shami Chakrabarti The Guardian (19/3/05)
- Asbo Concern: ‘War on yobs’ stigmatises children - Tash Shifrin Socialist Worker (12/3/05)
- Joint Committee On Human Rights - Fourth Report printed 12 January 2005 (January 2005)
- Napo - Report by the probation union analysing the first six years of ASBOs (December 2004)
- In focus ASBOs: what future for our kids? - Matt Foot, Tash Shifrin, Beccy Palmer Socialist Worker supplement (December 2004)
- Anti-social behaviour orders: case-law reviewed - Nic Madge Legal Action (December 2004)
- Asbo absurdities - Matt Foot The Guardian (1/12/04)
- He's broke. It's £6 for a fix - Mary Riddell The Observer (31/10/04)
- Howard League for Penal Reform’s submission to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into anti-social behaviour (September 2004)
- Liberty's evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on Anti-Social Behaviour (September 2004)
- Turning right to wrong - Nick Cohen The Observer (1/8/04)
- Being a yob is no crime - Zoe Williams The Guardian (24/8/04)
- A comprehensive list of relevant articles, dating up to October 2004, can be found on the KFx website
ORGANISATIONS
- Asbo Concern - A campaigning alliance of organisations and individuals who are concerned about the use of anti social behaviour orders
- Liberty
- NAPO - The trade union and professional association for family court and probation staff
- Howard League for Penal Reform
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