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It's all low level anti-social behaviour offences, often involving off-road motorbikes.
Antisocial behaviour offences, such as aggressive begging, public drinking or the sale of legal highs, are far from 'bizarre'bizarre
An elderly German gentleman dubbed "Terror-Günter" is due to appear in court accused of a raft of anti-social behaviour offences.
May told the Guardian that the term, asbo, would be dropped and she would cut the category of antisocial behaviour offences from 19 to five as part of a process of making "the toolkit of measures" less prescriptive, bureaucratic and costly.
A third of the 9,806 sexual assault and related offences, almost half of the 37,639 assault and related offences and more than half of the 10,573 stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour offences were family violence related, the report found.
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The coercive or controlling behaviour offence aims to close a gap in the law around patterns of coercive and controlling behaviour during a relationship between intimate partners, former partners who still live together, or family members.
On the day the law was introduced, Karen Bradley, the minister for preventing abuse and exploitation, said: "Our new coercive or controlling behaviour offence will protect victims who would otherwise be subjected to sustained patterns of abuse that can lead to total control of their lives by the perpetrator.
In particular, proof of principle studies are needed to demonstrate effectiveness in health, behaviour and offence-related outcomes (including crime reduction).
An amendment in the Serious Crime Bill has made "coercive or controlling behaviour" an offence with a maximum of five years' imprisonment or a considerable fine if found guilty.
The home secretary, Theresa May, has announced that the government is to legislate before the election, amending a Home Office bill already in passage, to make "coercive and controlling behaviour" an offence punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine.
The reasons given come under the umbrella sentence: "especially unpleasant, nasty and despicable behaviour", covering his offences in the specialist area of sexism, hypocrisy on the subject of outsourcing labour, climate change denial, and his rampant "birtherism".
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