ASBO
Anti-Social Behaviour Order
TRANSLATION
ASBO= Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Gerichtsbeschluss wegen asozialen Verhaltens) --- GOOGLE INDEX ASBO: approximately 850,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A 74-year-old man who waged a hate campaign on cyclists is given a two-year ASBO.
(BBC News)
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Four members of one family have been banned from a county as part of an ASBO.
(BBC News)
(BBC News)
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Four members of one family have been banned from a county as part of an ASBO.
(BBC News)
Did you
know?
ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order)
acronym
- an order issued by a British court against someone accused of anti-social behaviour
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WORD ORIGIN
The UK Home Office defines anti-social behaviour as that "which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator. Among the forms it can take are graffiti, abusive and intimidating language, fouling the street with litter, drunken behaviour in the streets, dealing drugs, and excessive noise, particularly late at night."
This last point is taken seriously. A four-year-old cockerel in Selkirk was once handed an ASBO because neighbours had raised a court action against the bird's owners to stop its early morning crowing. Neighbours had complained the cockerel was crowing from 2:30 a.m. and exceeding a 30-decibel limit set by World Health Organisation guidelines.
The court ordered the cockerel, which goes by the name Charlie, locked up in lightproof accommodation every night between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. from 1 May to 30 September and between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. for the rest of the year. Charlie's owner, who was astonished at the neighbour's reaction and the response of the court, commented, "You would think I had killed someone by all the fuss that has been caused."
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I wonder how much real effect an ASBO has on improving social behaviour?"
acronym
- an order issued by a British court against someone accused of anti-social behaviour
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WORD ORIGIN
The UK Home Office defines anti-social behaviour as that "which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator. Among the forms it can take are graffiti, abusive and intimidating language, fouling the street with litter, drunken behaviour in the streets, dealing drugs, and excessive noise, particularly late at night."
This last point is taken seriously. A four-year-old cockerel in Selkirk was once handed an ASBO because neighbours had raised a court action against the bird's owners to stop its early morning crowing. Neighbours had complained the cockerel was crowing from 2:30 a.m. and exceeding a 30-decibel limit set by World Health Organisation guidelines.
The court ordered the cockerel, which goes by the name Charlie, locked up in lightproof accommodation every night between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. from 1 May to 30 September and between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. for the rest of the year. Charlie's owner, who was astonished at the neighbour's reaction and the response of the court, commented, "You would think I had killed someone by all the fuss that has been caused."
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"I wonder how much real effect an ASBO has on improving social behaviour?"
