ABSTRACT
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 introduced a number of crime prevention measures to reduce the amount of crime committed by young people.
Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act provides for ‘anti-social behaviour orders’. The local authority or the police may apply to the local magistrates’ court for such an order if: (a) any person aged 10 or over has acted in an anti-social manner (defined as
acting in a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not in the same household as himself); and
(b) such an order is necessary to protect people in the area from further antisocial acts by that person.
