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On 7 December 2006, the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report (The Home Office: tackling anti-social behaviour: report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (HC 99 2006-2007)) which finds that around 65 per cent in a sample of 893 people who received some form of anti-social behaviour intervention did not engage in further anti-social behaviour. There was however a hard core of perpetrators for whom interventions had limited impact. Twenty per cent of the people in the sample received 55 per cent of all interventions issued.
The report says that the Home Office should formally evaluate the success
of different interventions and the impact of combining enforcement interventions
with support services, to better advise Anti-Social Behaviour Co-ordinators
at a local level. They should also consider developing and implementing
further more preventive measures to tackle the causes of anti-social behaviour.”
The report can be viewed on the NAO website