Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 6 March 2023.
Simon Clarke
Conservative, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there were for antisocial behaviour in Cleveland in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Edward Argar
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice
As part of the Government’s commitment to tackling and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB), the Government provided the police, local authorities and other local agencies with a range of flexible tools and powers that they can use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for various criminal offences in the following data tool: Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2022 (July 2017 to June 2022).
ASB can encompass a wide variety of behaviour and is not a specific criminal offence but can be prosecuted under a range of different offences.
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