Be a post whore!

[DanaC]

That was very much the fear when they were brought in. In truth the people most likely to find themselves caught up with asbos are youngsters who could most likely have been reached and diverted from criminality with better provision and support systems in place.

They're being phased out in favour of some new type of provision. Not sure how the new one works.

I was always against them myself, and considered them another rod to beat an already disenfranchised underclass, but then the people living on estates in the area I represented thought they were a good idea. They wanted to see them used more often and policed better. Their biggest complaint against asbos was that they didn't do what they were supposed to do (i.e keep the drug dealing burglar with a propensity to light fires away from their estate) because they were not sufficiently policed.