Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 10 November 2009.
David Howarth
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
2:30,
10 November 2009
One problem is that a lot of what the authorities treat as antisocial behaviour is in reality crime-such as assault, criminal damage and public order offences. Should those offences not be treated as crime, rather than dealt with under a civil procedure?