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Antisocial Behaviour Orders

Answer

ASBOs are civil orders and not an offender management tool so the information is not collected centrally.Numbers of ASBOs proved in court to have been breached are monitored centrally and these numbers together with breach rates are shown in the following table.

Table BN2 (CJS area): ASBOs issued from 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2005 that were breached at least once by end 2005
	ASBOs issued
CJS area	Total	Of which: breached¹	Percentage breached
Avon and Somerset	213	103	48
Bedfordshire	82	32	39
Cambridgeshire	96	34	35
Cheshire	208	90	43
Cleveland	115	74	64
Cumbria	115	68	59
Derbyshire	125	51	41
Devon and Cornwall	177	53	30
Dorset	77	51	66
Durham	96	71	74
Essex	149	81	54
Gloucestershire	68	41	60
Greater London	1,163	463	40
Greater Manchester	1,227	686	56
Hampshire	272	133	49
Hertfordshire	145	54	37
Humberside	236	100	42
Kent	159	22	14
Lancashire	357	176	49
Leicestershire	120	59	49
Lincolnshire	43	21	49
Merseyside	300	136	45
Norfolk	117	45	38
Northamptonshire	84	9	11
Northumbria	302	131	43
North Yorkshire	91	41	45
Nottinghamshire	255	109	43
South Yorkshire	245	132	54
Staffordshire	170	67	39
Suffolk	165	65	39
Surrey	110	48	44
Sussex	245	121	49
Thames Valley	162	70	43
Warwickshire	87	48	55
West Mercia	231	103	45
West Midlands	776	373	48
West Yorkshire	692	384	55
Wiltshire	52	25	48
Dyfed Powys	35	16	46
Gwent	72	46	64
North Wales	168	77	46
South Wales	147	59	40
Total England and Wales	9,749	4,568	47
¹ ASBOs may be issued in one area and breached in another. Breaches are counted in this table in the area of issue.
Note:
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

458 c1307-8W; 121083

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Anti-social behaviour orders

Link

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