Home Office Good Practice Seminars
Violent Crime Seminar
Keynote presentations - 16 September 2004 (afternoon)
Presentations on anti-social behaviour
Using ASB legislation to tackle violent crime
Bill Pitt, Head of Nuisance Strategy Group, Manchester City
Bill Pitt looked at community regeneration and the harm caused to communities by anti-social behaviour. He outlined Manchester's response to this issue highlighting the casework focus as key to the success achieved to date. Manchester has also challenged the focus of the criminal and civil justice system on perpetrators so that its mulit-agency work looks more at support for the witness to engage them in the process so that they can see why they should act against perpetrators through the support of local agencies. He gave some figures to show the level of success within Manchester through their use of frequent injunction actions.
Download the Using ASB legislation PowerPoint presentation (144 Kb)
Effective Use of Anti-social Behaviour Contracts
Helen Nixon, Rotherham MBC
Helen Nixon outlined the approach to the problem of anti-social behaviour in Rotherham, where a Safer Estates Forum meets monthly to identify individual perpetrators. Many agencies attend these meetings and may visit the homes of alleged perpetrators. This work has lead to some 223 Acceptable Behaviour Contracts being issued and Helen detailed the success rate and reduction in anti-social behaviour incidents recorded.
Download the Effective Use of Anti-social Behaviour Contracts Power Point presentation (174 Kb)
Keynote presentations 15 September 2004 (morning)
Keynote presentations 15 September 2004 (afternoon)
Keynote presentations 16 September 2004 (morning)
Last update: 08 December 2004