The dossier, produced by ASBO Concern and the National Association of Probation Officers, documents inconsistencies in the use of the orders by local authorities.
Examples include an 18-year-old arrested for attending a Manchester youth club because he had been banned from meeting friends and a 16-year-old who was banned from behaving in an antisocial manner at school after disrupting a science class. The five-year order covered the whole of England and Wales.
Matt Foot, founder of ASBO Concern, said the public mood was now turning against antisocial behaviour policies.
www.asboconcern.org.uk
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