British Crime Survey figures for January to December 2005 show 32 per cent of people interviewed saw the issue as a problem, compared with 29 per cent the year before.
Richard Garside, acting director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College London, said that young people hanging around is the only one of the seven indicators of antisocial behaviour used by the Home Office that is not an offence in its own right. "Young people hanging around is not in itself a problem," he said. "But we can all recognise that there are situations where young people can appear intimidating."
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