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A Report on the Consultation Responses to Putting Our Communities First: A Strategy for tackling Anti- Social Behaviour

Appendix F: Questions and Coding Frame for Quantitative Analysis

Question 1: Should RSLs and/or other community planning agencies have a formal duty re anti-social behaviour strategies?

1. RSLs
2. RSLs and Other Community Planning Partners
3. Neither
4. Other

Question 3: Should community reparation orders apply to individuals as well as groups?

1. Individuals and groups
2. Groups only
3. Individuals only
4. Other

Question 4: Should there be an upper age limit for community reparation orders (21 years of age)

1. Yes
2. No
4. Other

Question 8: Do you support wider use of Acceptable Behaviour Contracts?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Questions 11-15: Do you agree with introduction of ASBOs for Under-16s1?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 12: Do you support the introduction of individual support orders linked to ASBOs for under-16s?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 14: Do you agree that the Youth Court model, where this operates, should be amended to include young people under-16 years of age who are referred to the criminal justice system by the Procurator Fiscal for breach of an ASBO?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 17: What are your views on the making electronic monitoring a disposal for the Children's Hearings system?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Questions 19-20: What are your views on restricted liberty orders for under-16s?2

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Questions 21-26: What are your views on parenting orders3

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 21a: Should local authorities and reporter be given power to apply to courts for a parenting order?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 21b: Should reporter be able to apply for a parenting order on own initiative?

1. Reporter on own
2. Only through children's hearing
3. Neither
4. Other

Question 22: Should courts be able to impose a parenting order on their own initiative?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 24: Should the failure to ensure attendance at school be grounds for a parenting order?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 27: Do you agree it would be desirable to require local authorities to comply with supervision requirements?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 28: Do you agree that at the hearing's direction a Reporter request a sheriff to make an order to enforce implementation of the supervision requirement?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 29: Should the hearings and Reporter have a role in alerting Scottish Ministers to failure by a council to ensure a child before them receives appropriate education?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 30: Should the power to award fixed penalty fines be given to community wardens and/or police?

1. Police only
2. Police and community wardens
3. Neither
4. Other

Question 31: Do local authority and other bodies have sufficient powers to clear litter?

1. Yes
2. No

Question 33: Is the scope of the present regulations governing the removal of vehicles causing an obstruction sufficient?

1. Yes
2. No

Question 35: Should local authorities have the power to examine waste transfer documents?

1. Yes
2. No

Question 36: Should the fine for fly-tipping which may be imposed on summary proceedings be doubled to 40,000 pounds?

1. Yes
2. No

Question 37: Do you agree with our proposal to ban the sale of spray paint to under-16s?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 39: Should we require or enable local authorities to implement a night time noise service?

1. Require local authorities
2. Enable local authorities
3. Neither
4. Other

Question 40: Should we extend the [noise nuisance] service from a night-time service to a 24-hour service?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 43: Should local authorities by given the power to regulate or sanction private landlords or a combination of both?

1. Regulate
2. Sanction
3. Both
4. Other
5. Neither

Question 44: Do you think measures to reward good tenants are appropriate?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 45: Do you agree that provisions linking housing and homeless legislation to ASBOs should apply to ASBOs involving under-16s?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 46: Do you support extending the use of fixed penalty notices levied by the police to a range of low-level, anti-social and nuisance offending?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 47: Should [fixed penalty notices] be imposed on under-16s?

1. Yes
2. No
4. Other

Question 49: Do you agree that it would be useful to extend police powers in respect of groups of young people in the way proposed [for dispersal of groups]?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 50: Do you agree that the power to apply for an ASBO should be limited to local authorities and registered social landlords (in consultation with the police)?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 51: Do you agree that there should be a statutory power of arrest for breach of an ASBO?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 52: Do you agree that the court should have the power to impose an ASBO for a criminal offence, where there is evidence of persistent anti-social behaviour?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 53: Do you think the court should have the power to grant an ASBO in related civil proceedings, such as an eviction hearing, where there is evidence of anti-social conduct?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 54: Do you agree that the prohibitions in an ASBO should be able to extend beyond a local authority where this is necessary to protect persons from further anti-social acts by the individual concerned?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 55: Do you agree that the police should have the same right of entry to off-licenses and registered clubs serving alcohol as they have to licensed premises?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 56: Do you agree that there should continue to be no right for the license-holder to object?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 57: Do you agree that the procedure for a closure order should apply to all licensed premises and to registered clubs?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 58: Do you agree that we should clarify the powers of the police to close licensed premises where there is, or is likely to be, disorder in them or in their vicinity?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 59: Do you agree that there should be a new power for the police…to close down premises at the centre of illegal activity, disorder or anti-social behaviour?

1. Support
2. Support with reservations
3. Do not support
4. Other

Question 60: Should power be limited to non-residential premises or should it extend to all premises, including occupied residential accommodation?

1. Limited to non-residential/non-occupied premises
2. Should apply to all premises
4. Other

Footnotes

1. Please note, this was not a specific question of the consultation document.
2. Please note, this was not a specific question of the consultation document.
3. Please note, this was not a specific question of the consultation document.

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