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Disciplining Difference – Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2009

Judy Nixon  and
David Prior
Judy Nixon
Affiliation:
Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University E-mail: j.nixon@shu.ac.uk
David Prior
Affiliation:
E-mail: d.prior@bham.ac.uk
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Addressing anti-social behaviour (ASB) has been a major policy priority of New Labour since it came to power in 1997. This is reflected in a series of legislative powers enabling a range of agencies to take legal action to tackle ASB (e.g. Crime and Disorder Act 1998; Police Reform Act 2002; Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003; Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005) and in a number of national policy initiatives (e.g. the Home Office ‘Together’ Campaign, 2003; the Respect Action Plan, 2006; the Youth Task Force Action Plan, 2007). These developments are the subject of a growing body of academic analysis and critique, much of which has focused on the use of the ASB powers in the regulation of particular neighbourhoods and communities, especially social housing areas of predominantly White working-class residents (Burney, 2005; Flint, 2006), and of young people, again mostly White and working class (Squires and Stephen, 2005). Specific service or practice developments arising out of ASB policy have also been analysed, for example, Family Intervention Projects (Nixon et al., 2006, 2008), Anti-Social Behaviour Teams (Prior et al., 2006), and the use of ASBOs (Squires, 2006; Matthews et al., 2007) and Dispersal Orders (Crawford and Lister, 2007).

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Themed section on Disciplining Difference
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 71 - 75
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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