The measures include antisocial behaviour orders for young people under the age of 16, community repair orders for young offenders and civil orders for parents found to be failing their children.
The bill also proposes banning the sale of spray paint to under-16s and giving local authorities powers to make fireworks and graffiti a public nuisance, under measures agreed between Labour and its Liberal Democrat coalition partners.
The full details of the bill are due to be published this month. They will then go before Parliament in the autumn and be passed over the next 12 months.
Jack McConnell, Scotland's first minister, said the measures were part of a commitment to "move quickly to crack down hard on antisocial behaviour".
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