The anti-social behaviour, crime and policing act in practice – a practitioner perspective

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to offer a practitioner’s perspective to the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014. Many of the new sections are now in force and three in particular have been of interest to me in the last 12-18 months.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is written on the basis of the author’s own knowledge, experience and cases that the author has dealt with under the new legislation. Where cases have been published the author has included the relevant links to press coverage.

Findings

The financial limitations upon registered provides of social housing (RPs) will affect the way in which they conduct litigation and so might mean that RPs are less likely to want to take risks in court. The new grounds have not faced meaningful challenge yet, and so their use might be limited until case law is developed and settled to provide more certainty in this area.

Originality/value

The perspective is the author’s own and has been written solely by the author for this specific purpose. It is hoped that this will offer insight into the development of anti-social behaviour/housing law and how practitioners view the changes now that they are in force.

Citation

Varley, K. (2016), "The anti-social behaviour, crime and policing act in practice – a practitioner perspective", Safer Communities, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 176-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-08-2016-0017