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Antisocial behaviour and nuisance

Introduction

Antisocial behaviour is defined as:

“behaviour that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household”.

Surveys of public opinion and consultation exercises often show various forms of antisocial behaviour as having a higher profile with residents than what are traditionally regarded as more serious crimes (burglary, street robberies etc).

Clearly we cannot begin to tackle ‘antisocial behaviour’ until we have mapped its extent. The debate around what constitutes antisocial behaviour shows that the definition can be wide ranging and can include:

• Persistent alarms: Report noise pollution
• Graffiti: Report graffiti or flyposting
• Fly-tipping: Report fly tipping
• Abandoned cars: Report abandoned vehicle
• Street drinking
• Drug dealing
• Soliciting
• Illegal parking
• Vandalism
• Litter
• Youth nuisance
• Off-road motor-cycling
• High hedges
• Noisy neighbours.

Antisocial behaviour covers a multitude of activity and may be broken down into more specific crime types, which often over-lap with the more general label of ‘anti social behaviour’.

There is much good work going on across Calderdale to tackle the issue of antisocial behaviour: local initiatives include the Pubwatch Scheme and Network and the provision of Youth Shelters. Information on some of the successful projects carried out across Calderdale can be found in Case studies .

• Antisocial Behaviour Strategy 2005 - 2008 [PDF file 191KB]|

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