Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is ally activity that impacts
on other people in a negative way. Despite of a 39 % drop (1)______
in the incidence of crime since 1995, anti-social
behaviour remains a serious issue with around 66,000
reports of ASB made to authorities each day. We are
making progress, however. A number of people who (2)______
think ASB is a big or fairly big problem has reduced
from 20.7% in 2002 to 16.7% at the end of 2004, so (3)______
there still is much more we can be doing together
to tackle with the problem. ASB includes a variety of (4)______
behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and
unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of
community life. Anti-social behaviour doesn’t just make life
unpleasant. It holds back the regeneration of disadvantaged
areas and creates an environment more serious crime (5)______
can take hold.
Many factors have been identified that, while they do not
cause anti-social behaviour, do increase the risk of their happening. (6)______
Four main factors have been identified: family environment,
educational retainment, community life, personal and (7)______
individual factors. Most types of anti-social behaviour fit one (8)______
of three categories: street problems, nuisance neighbours
or environmental crime. These categories cover a broad
range of conduct ranging from groups of youths behave (9)______
aggressively in shopping precincts, to neighbours who don’t
clean up after their dogs, to the misuse of fireworks. Anti-social
behaviour impacts individuals, families and communities: (10)______
it prevents a peaceful community life and degrades the environment.