Rachel Ormston and Simon Anderson, Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen)
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Experience of and concern about ASB
What influences views of ASB?
Attitudes to community involvement in tackling ASB
Young people and ASB
Conclusions
Experience and concern
Local and national 'gaps'
Formal and informal action
Collective and individual action
Realism or stereotype?
1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Definitions of 'antisocial behaviour'
Policy and research background
Minding the gap
Engaging the community
The role of young people
The data
Analysis and reporting conventions
2 EXPERIENCE OF AND CONCERN ABOUT ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Experience of ASB
Concern about ASB
Different types of ASB, different levels of concern?
Concern about ASB at local vs. national level
3 WHAT INFLUENCES VIEWS OF ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR?
Introduction
A note on analysis
Demographic and area-level factors
Experience of ASB
Deprivation still matters
Media exposure and perceptions of ASB
Social trust
4 ATTITUDES TO COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN TACKLING ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Introduction
Attitudes to joining local groups to tackle ASB
Who is most and least willing to get involved?
What are the barriers to involvement?
Likely responses to ASB by young people
Who is most likely to intervene?
5 YOUNG PEOPLE AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Defining 'young people'
General attitudes towards young people
Views of media coverage of young people
The relationship between young people and ASB: evidence from elsewhere
Witnessing of ASB by young people
Beliefs about young people's involvement in ASB
Views of the effectiveness of the police in dealing with ASB by young people
6 CONCLUSIONS
Experience and concern
Local and national 'gaps'?
Formal and informal action
Collective and individual action
Realism or stereotype?
REFERENCES
ANNEX A: ADDITIONAL TABLES
Notes on tables
Chapter 2 additional tables
Chapter 3 additional tables
Chapter 4 additional tables
ANNEX B: TECHNICAL DETAILS OF THE SURVEY
The Scottish Social Attitudes series
The 2009 survey
Sample design
Response rates
Weighting
Fieldwork
Analysis variables
National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification ( NS- SEC)
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation ( SIMD)
Analysis techniques
References in technical annex
List of tables and figures
Table 2.1: How much ASB seen or heard in this area in the last 12 months? (row %)
Table 2.2: How concerned people would be about different types of ASB (row %)
Table 2.3: 'Very concerned' about different types of ASB by age (cell %)
Figure 2.1: Perceptions of ASB as a problem in people's local areas and in Scotland as a whole? (%)
Table 3.1: Proportion who think ASB is 'A very' or 'Quite a big problem' in local area and in Scotland as a whole, by demographic and area-level factors (cell %)
Table 3.2: Proportion who think ASB is 'A very' or 'Quite a big problem' in local area and in Scotland as a whole, by how much ASB witnessed in local area in last 12 months (cell %)
Figure 3.1: Proportion who think ASB is a 'very' or 'quite a big problem' in local area by deprivation and how often witnessed ASB? (%)
Figure 3.2: How much seen or heard in newspapers or on TV about ASB in Scotland in last 12 months? (%)
Figure 3.3: Beliefs about television and newspaper coverage of ASB in Scotland (%)
Figure 3.4: Belief ASB is 'A very' or 'quite a big problem', by how much seen or heard about ASB in the media
Table 3.3: Proportion who think ASB is 'A very' or 'Quite a big problem' in local area and in Scotland as a whole, by social trust (cell %)
Figure 4.1: Likelihood of getting involved in a local group to try and put a stop to ASB (%).
Table 4.1: Likelihood of getting involved in local group to try and stop ASB by age, accommodation type and deprivation (row %)
Figure 4.2: Agreement with statements about getting involved in a local group to deal with ASB (%)
Table 4.2: Likelihood of getting involved in local group to try and stop ASB, by agreement with statements about getting involved (row %)
Table 4.3: Likelihood of different actions in response to witnessing teenage boys/girls vandalising a bus shelter (column %)
Figure 4.3: Proportion 'very'/'fairly' likely to take different actions by respondent gender (%)
Table 4.4: Proportion 'very' or 'fairly likely' to take different actions by respondent age (column %)
Table 4.5: Proportion 'very' or 'fairly likely' to take different actions by deprivation (column %)
Table 5.1: Agreement with statements about young people (row %)
Table 5.2: Most and least positive attitudes towards young people, by demographic and area-level factors (cell %)
Table 5.3: Views of media coverage of young people by views of media coverage of ASB in general (col %)
Figure 5.1: Witnessing of children/young people vandalising property/being drunk and rowdy in area (row %)
Table 5.4: Witnessing of ASB involving young people 'very/fairly often', by demographic and area-level factors (cell %)
Figure 5.2: Views of how good or bad police are at dealing with ASB by young people (row %)
Table A.1: How much rubbish/litter seen in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.1: How much rubbish/litter seen in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.2: How much graffiti, vandalism or other deliberate damage to property seen in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.3: How much noise from neighbours/loud parties heard in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.4: How much drunk and rowdy behaviour seen in public in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.5: How much swearing/shouting of abuse in public heard in this area in the last 12 months by age, area deprivation, urban-rural and whether live in a house or a flat (row %)
Table A.6: How much of a problem people think ASB is in local area by gender, age, social class, tenure and accommodation type (row %)
Table A.7: How much of a problem people think ASB is in Scotland as a whole by gender, age, social class, tenure and accommodation type (row %)
Table A.8: How much of a problem people think ASB is in local area by deprivation and urban-rural (row %)
Table A.9: How much of a problem people think ASB is in Scotland as a whole by deprivation and urban-rural (row %)
Table A.10: How much of a problem people think ASB is in local area by how much ASB witnessed in area in last 12 months (row %)
Table A.11: How much of a problem people think ASB is in Scotland as a whole by how much ASB witnessed in area in last 12 months (row %)
Table A.12: How much of a problem people think ASB is in local area and Scotland as a whole by social trust (row %)
Table A.13: Proportion 'very' or 'fairly likely' to take different actions in response to teenagers vandalising a bus shelter, by various factors (row %)
Table 1: 2009 Scottish Social Attitudes survey response
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