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Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Berkshire

Answer

Data on antisocial behaviour contracts is collected under the survey completed by crime and disorder reduction partnerships. Data was first collected for the period October 2003 to September 2004 and the most recent is for the period from October 2007 to September 2008. The data for Reading CDRP are broken down as follows:

	Number
2003-04	6
2004-05	21
2005-06	2
2006-07	4
2007-08	5
Total	38

Data broken down by constituency and county are not available antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) became available from April 1999. Data collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice on numbers of ASBOs issued showing a breakdown by age group is only available for ASBOs issued from 1 June 2000. The number of ASBOs issued in each year to persons under the age of 18 at all courts in the Thames Valley Criminal Justice System (CJS) area between 1 June 2000 and 31 December 2007 (latest available) is shown in the following table.Data collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice on ASBO breaches only counts those occasions where the breach was proven in court to have occurred and are available for ASBOs issued from 1 June 2000. The number of ASBOs issued at all courts in the Thames Valley CJS area subsequently proven in court to have been breached for the first time in each year during the period 1 June 200- 31 December 2007 is also shown in the table.It should be noted that these breached ASBOs are counted based on the year the first breach was proven in court. They include breaches by persons of all ages. Many ASBOs which are breached in a particular year will have been issued in a previous year; it is therefore not possible to compute breach rates from the figures presented this table. ASBOs may be breached more than once and in more than one year. In this table ASBOs are counted once only within the period when they were first breached.Data on ASBOs issued and breached collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice are not available below Criminal Justice System (CJS) area level.

Number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued to persons under 18-years of age at all courts¹ in the Thames Valley Criminal Justice System (CJS) area and the number proven in court to have been breached, in each year², 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2007
Thames Valley	2000³	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Issued (aged 10-17)	—	3	2	5	21	10	3	17
Breached (all ages)4	n/a	n/a	n/a	6	26	32	31	22
n/a = not available.
¹ This includes magistrates courts when acting both in their civil capacity issuing ASBOs on application and their criminal capacity when issuing ASBOs following conviction for a criminal offence.
² ASBOs may be breached more than once and in more than one year. In this table ASBOs breached are counted based on the year the first breach was proven in court. Many ASBOs which are breached in a particular year will have been issued in a previous year.
³ Age details of ASBO recipients available from 1 June 2000. Breach data are from 1 June 2000.
4 ASBOs can be issued in one CJS area and breached in another. In this table breaches are counted on area of issue.
Breach data for 2000—02 are not available broken down by year.
Notes:
1. Previously issued data have been revised.
2. ASBO breach data are compiled by matching records of ASBOs issued with ASBOs breached. The nature of this matching process means that previously published ASBO breach data are subject to minor revision. 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.
Source (issued):
As reported to the Home Office by the Court Service.
Source (breached):
Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database.
Prepared by Justice Statistics Analytical Services.
[Ref: ASBO 57-09, PQs 297557 and 297555].

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

499 c331-2W; 297556

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Berkshire Acceptable behaviour contracts

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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