By D. McCarthy
Studying multi-agency operating in accordance with anti-social behaviour, this publication investigates the way the police, social paintings groups and the formative years justice provider interact on early intervention projects to aid teens, and explores the complexities and sensible struggles of those partnerships.
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In England and Wales, 349 statutory groups were created from 1998 onwards. The key tasks of the partnership groups were to meet regularly (approximately four times per year) in order to discuss local crime priorities and to publish a local audit and strategy which could be used to direct funding allocated by the Home Office towards specific projects. The vast majority of local area strategies were crime-focused, particularly around volume crimes and other disorder-reduction targets prescribed by the Home Office.
As VincentJones (2000) points out, contracts have taken on an increasing role in the delivery of a whole range of public services, as well as serving as a key method of regulation. These services include crime control, where contracts have been increasingly applied through the notion of ‘regulated self-regulation’ (Crawford, 2003: 488). Traditionally, punishment was understood as paternalistic, which is to say determined by the state as a sanction for wrongdoing. Contracts, by contrast, encourage ‘selfregulation’ and position the agent as having choice and as an active participant in the relationship with agencies.
Hunter and Nixon (2001), in their analysis of 67 housing case files, found that 58 per cent of overall cases involved female-headed households. In these cases women were subject to punitive responses by both housing landlords and the courts on the grounds of being poor controllers of males’ (partners, teenage sons) behaviour in the household. The burden of control within the family was seen as inherently the mother’s responsibility, even where the behaviour of her partner and children extended into the public realm, and where the women had no involvement in any incidents of ASB.