The multi-agency approach puts antisocial young people through a series of increasingly punitive steps, starting with a police visit to the parents but culminating in an ASBO.
Inspector Graham Reynolds, youth issues manager at Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, which helped devise the strategy, said: "We are hopeful that with this early intervention approach we can avoid the need for ASBOs entirely.
"We will be regarding a lack of ASBO applications as a mark of the success of the strategy."
The approach has been piloted in Plymouth and will be introduced to the rest of Devon and Cornwall on 25 March.
The area's four youth offending teams will lead on interventions involving young people. Connexions, the youth service and the Crown Prosecution Service are also involved.
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