On 19 December 2010 14:53, Richard Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > >> — people who are responsible for antisocial behaviour > > http://data.gov.uk/search/apachesolr_search/antisocial%20behaviour
A health warning with ASBO statistics: local housing authorities (in the form of local councils) have (and had) a role in applying for ASBO's alongside the police and CPS. Since ASBO's started, councils have used them to control perceived anti-social behaviour on their estates and amongst their tenants. The same tool was not available to private landlords, although ASBI's were added later that could be used by the private social housing sector (eg housing associations, what were "registered social landlords" and are now "private registered providers of social housing"). This means that anti-social behaviour tools are heavily weighted in their use against social housing tenants for a reason that has nothing to do with the prevalence of anti-social behaviour amongst those tenants (whether you measure ASBO's or ASBO's and ASBI's). I'm not saying there isn't a link, just that there's a huge bias in those tools. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
