1. An understanding of complex anti-social behaviour cases, including cases presented at partner risk assessment conference (ASBRAC)
Best use of community safety or policing research
Lancashire County Council
Rebecca Eckersley November 2017

2. Anti-social behaviour
Aim:
Understand the factors underlying high risk anti-social behaviour cases
Explore the causes of escalation to serious harm or repeat victimisation
Provide direction to community safety and early intervention services
Reduce escalation to serious harm and repeat victimisation of anti-social behaviour
Lancashire Strategic Assessment ( ) recognised gap in countywide priority

3. Anti-social behaviour - data
Accessible data:
Incidents reported to the police (14% of all reports, 77,093)
11% repeat locations – not person based
Police data not all partners
High Risk cases not evident
High risk cases are dealt with at ASB Risk Assessment Conferences
Missing data from half of districts
Unique approach to managing data
Harman data base
Police data (not multi-agency) it does include High Risk
Location Based but “victim” data is accessible
Includes Early Action and High Impact callers
Extensive data cleansing required
Often business or public ground
Draw on multi-agency information to establish complete picture
Enables establishment of lead agency, multi-directional action plan
More permanent solution within shorter time frame

4. Anti-social behaviour - method
Age, Race, Sexuality,
Mental health,
Physical health
Methodology:
Data cleansing
Key word searching and coding
Coding from reading each case
Analysis for types of cases, times, locations
Correlation across variables (SPSS)
Direct neighbour
Local neighbour Youth
Alcohol, drugs,
isolation,
Targeting property/vehicle
Road rage
Verbal abuse / noise / housing
Early Action , High Impact Callers, vulnerable people

5. Anti-social behaviour - findings
Duration
The most common time scale for cases to continue prior to a resolution is 8 to 10 weeks.
Demographics
The most common lifestyle type (22%) is transient renters of low cost accommodation often within subdivided older properties.
Although the number of cases were equally split in terms of gender, the high risk cases were female biased, accounting for 63% (26) of the total.
People over the age of 30 years were most affected by neighbour nuisance.
In one in five cases the perimeter of harmed person’s property is targeted suggesting that criminal damage is a common activity undertaken as part of anti-social behaviour.
MOSAIC divides the UK population into 15 Groups and 66 more detailed types. It uses over 400 data variables and paints a unique picture of UK consumers based on their demographic characteristics, lifestyles and behaviour.

6. Anti-social behaviour - findings
Mental Health
Mental Health was reported in 43% (86) of cases either as a determining factor or as a result of the anti-social behaviour itself; this rose to 63% for cases between direct neighbours.
A third of cases involved noise nuisance; there is a strong correlation between cases involving mental health and noise.
One third of cases involved alcohol or drugs or both, a third of these also reported mental health as an aggravating factor.

7. Anti-social behaviour - findings
Hate Crime
Hate Crime and mental health issues together with alcohol and drugs has on anti-social behaviour. It demonstrates that Hate Crime which accounts for 1% of all crime has a greater impact in complex and higher risk cases of anti-social behaviour (18%).
Hate – race was reported in 13% of cases, a third of which were high risk; a further 5% of cases were classed as hate against gender or sexual orientation.

8. Anti-social behaviour - future
What next:
Reassess management of ASBRAC cases across agencies and sharing good practice across areas
Promote the recording of substance misuse to compare to national data
Include diversity in any awareness courses for youth involved in ASB
Highlight the links between health and ASB to professionals
Provides evidence in why we should continue to invest time and resources at an early stage of ASB e.g. noise
Initiated further work on Hate Crime