Report calls for antisocial behaviour to be treated as criminal

Antisocial behaviour should be increasingly treated as a criminal rather than civil matter, a report by the crime campaigner turned government adviser Sara Payne recommended today.

The document said the wider justice system should be reworked to focus more closely on victims.

It follows cases such as that of Fiona Pilkington, who killed herself and her disabled daughter after suffering years of abuse from local youths, during which no criminal charges were brought.

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