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Anti-social behaviour order

Anti-social behaviour order

Search complete. 21 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Anti-social behaviour order".

Nov 2, 2026

Chris ScullHOST
5:38
They need
Elis JamesHOST
5:39
Asbos.
Chris ScullHOST
5:40
On Lady and the Tramp, when those dogs eat outside the Italian restaurant, they lay their own table, don't they? Pretty sure they use knives and forks.
Chris ScullHOST
5:48
Forks would never do that.
Steve RobertsGUEST
7:06
So it was more thinking through around how do they make sense of this in the context of being told that working class men do X, and now all they've got available is Y.
Steve RobertsGUEST
7:14
So I was looking at what possibilities... become realizable and how they can use agency to do that and basically my whole thesis kind of over the next few years was to get away from this idea that the working class are helpless and in fact they are generators and respondents to social change in a really productive way and this kind of negative depiction of Asbos and hoodies that would have been going around the UK government like David Cameron but also Tony Blair talking about kids with hoodies and these kind of depictions were just so narrow I thought well I came to realise it was so narrow because it was my instinct as a working class kid but also as someone that studied and hung around with working class kids all the time or young people the picture of working-class masculinity was just so problematic.
Steve RobertsGUEST
7:59
And the picture that I was able to paint was much more diverse and often quite boring, to be frank.
Steve RobertsGUEST
8:04
Like, it's just not as spectacular or as horrific as people thought.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:35
Great policy.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:36
Hugh Abbott, pet Asbos, which came in quite soon afterwards.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:41
Pet Asbos.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:43
And Chris Addison came in with a national spare room database, which became the bedroom tax.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:48
LAUGHTER I mean, part of the reason for bringing Think of It to an end was when it became adopted by Parliament and Cameron started calling, he said, oh, this...
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:35
Great policy.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:36
Hugh Abbott, pet Asbos, which came in quite soon afterwards.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:41
Pet Asbos.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:43
And Chris Addison came in with a national spare room database, which became the bedroom tax.
Armando IannucciGUEST
15:48
LAUGHTER I mean, part of the reason for bringing Think of It to an end was when it became adopted by Parliament and Cameron started calling, he said, oh, this...
Steve BracknallHOST
13:10
I'll tell you what killed Halloween for me.
Steve BracknallHOST
13:11
Asbos.
Steve BracknallHOST
13:12
I thought you liked Halloween.
Steve BracknallHOST
13:13
Asbos.
Steve BracknallHOST
13:13
Don't
Paul SampsonHOST
13:14
you get all the sweets in and all that? I
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:15
The longer we went on, more and more agencies, authorities, housing authorities, educational authorities, social services authorities, even private companies managing social housing estates were given powers that allowed them to apply to the magistrate's court for an ASBO order.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:34
ASBOs were like injunctions.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
24:36
You could apply for them to the court, and get them on the balance of probabilities that someone was likely to engage in antisocial behaviour.
Adam FlemingHOST
24:45
And also you could get 10-year-olds.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:25
There were penalties for breach.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:26
If you breached the NASBO, you could technically be imprisoned for five years if you were an adult and a year's youth custody if you were under 18.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:37
But although breach rates were quite high, there's very little evidence that many people were sent to prison or got custodial sentences for persistent breach of ASBOs.
Peter SquiresSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
25:49
And because no one in the community necessarily knew who got an ASBO, some local authorities took to posting up pictures of young people who were on an ASBO.
Graeme SmithGUEST
21:55
She came along to Leeds where I was press officer to the city council.
Graeme SmithGUEST
22:00
And she was interviewing the mayor about something which had come along and has since disappeared called ASBOs, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders.
Graeme SmithGUEST
22:12
I wonder what happened to those.
Graeme SmithGUEST
22:14
And she was very demure and very sweet.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
48:28
... offenses, the authorities decided to act.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
48:31
The court handed out an ASBO, or anti-social behavior order.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
48:35
It was Paul's last chance to behave.
Paul JohnsonGUEST
48:38
If I don't, and if I breach it t- twice, I'll go to prison.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
48:43
His ASBO includes all kinds of restrictions.
Paul JohnsonGUEST
48:46
Well, I can't go out the shop.
Paul JohnsonGUEST
48:47
I can't go out the park.
speaker_35GUEST
50:04
[gentle music]
Bobby DeanGUEST
5:35
Quite possibly, yeah.
Bobby DeanGUEST
5:36
I mean, and I had mates that went that way, right? I mean, I was, uh, you know, I had people that were, uh, were getting into bigger trouble than me and, you know, got, found themselves with sort of youth sentences at, uh, at times, and ASBOs were around at that time.
Bobby DeanGUEST
5:49
And so there were definitely different pathways there for me.
Bobby DeanGUEST
5:53
And obviously, if my grandparents weren't there, there was another possibility, which is you enter the formal care system as well, which I'm sure we'll talk more about.

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