Time to 'move beyond' Asbos, says home secretary May
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Originally Posted by BBC News
The home secretary has said it is "time to move beyond" Asbos, signalling the possible end of their use in England and Wales.
Launching a review of the system, Theresa May said it was time to "stop tolerating" bad behaviour.
More than half of Asbos in England and Wales were breached from 2000 to 2008, government figures show.
But Labour, which devised Asbos, said they had made a "huge contribution" to cutting crime.
The Asbo - the "anti-social behaviour order" - was brought in to deal with persistent minor offenders whose actions might not otherwise have been punished.
It imposes restrictions, such as banning people from a local area or preventing them from swearing in public. If an Asbo is breached, offenders can face jail.
Mrs May said she wanted a review of the powers because police should be able to use their "common sense" to deal with anti-social behaviour.
Punishments should be "rehabilitative and restorative", rather than "criminalising", she argued.
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My workplace is near a scummy part of Cambridge, and there have been a few times when I have overheard the local scrotes
bragging to each other about their respective ASBOs.