Panorama looks at their use through the stories of the "ASBO kids" and their victims. Lesley Pulman and her neighbours suffered for years, unable to get a criminal conviction against the young people who had been "behaving like gangsters, threatening and intimidating people". She gave evidence to secure an ASBO.
But the programme also uncovers evidence that the use of ASBOs has led to vulnerable young people being criminalised. In Manchester, Panorama uncovers cases in which young people with learning difficulties and psychiatric problems face the prospect of jail for breaching orders they are not capable of understanding.
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