Authored by Ben Rogers, a former policy strategist for Downing Street and the Department for Communities and Local Government, the report argues Britain is perceived to have some of the highest levels of anti-social behaviour in Europe, with the public seeing the main cause of the problem as young people.
He writes that the physical presence of police is always going to be limited but if public skills and confidence to manage low-level disorder can be boosted, community safety would "dramatically" improve.
The report states: "While public concern for low-level disorder remains high, citizens have, for a number of reasons, withdrawn from day-to-day intervention. At the same time, policy has tended to focus on top-down, professionally centred approaches to tackling the problem.
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