Is anybody else really sick of this inept government? Making a decent decision seems to terrify them.

judy, Liverpool, England

None of you understand the problem, stop blaming kids and start a youth club of something!!!

Fact being, 20 years ago it was the local "hard man" who sorted out the car thief’s and drug dealers!

This is a problem with society now; it's a breakdown of family life etc.

Respect Start At HOME!!

Andrew T, England, UK,

For goodness sake, drag the offenders into the town centre and stick them in some old fashioned stocks for a couple of hours, with pictures of what they did. Let the townspeople harass the harassers.
Teach them some humility.

JD, Worthing, UK

Amend the Childrens Charter which started this off in the first place . Bring back discipline to stop this stupid situation .

Jim, Sidcup,

In the 50's and 60's kids were harder than today and, life was tougher. Consumerism as we know it didn't exist and, what we couldn't afford, we didn't get. We didn't steal it from someone else! We respected teachers and took our just punishment. That's gone and is where today's problems started.

Lou, London, UK

cant punish louts, particularly minors - heaven forfend we might infringe their human rights. right on brothers and sisters...this is what happens when u put the nanny state in charge.. belive in the "goodness" within us all, dont punish, patronise and "educate"..and if u are ignored..do nothing..

zugerman, zurich, switzerland

This just misses the point, we need to bring the cain back in to school's, children run riot and do what they want as "It's Their Human right" they no longer learn respect and disapline in schools, they just learn rules mean nothing, as they are never enforced.

MR W Jones, Liverpool, England

Yet more money wasted by the powers to be ,

Tony Winchester, Southend , G.B.

Hard punishment is what these yobs need, but whilst there are so many flacid do gooders out there whinging about human rights, this will never happen.
These do gooders do not understand that these yobs will only respect something that is "harder" than them!

Oi! The Spotters, St Albans, England

I wonder how much money wasted on these gimmick 'solutions' could have been better spent on building new prisons. Building more prisons so we can sentence more criminals seems like the most obvious solution in the world to me. Am I the only one?

Shaz, Bristol,

ASBOs were always a waste ot time. They have just become a badge of honour for yobbery. Get the yobs litter-picking instead. It will help to clean up this filthy country, teach them some social responsibility and save on council tax. A win-win-win.

Paul, Coventry,

ASBOs quietly dropped? Seems the logical thing to do, especially as we are now told vandalism is no longer considered to be a crime.

Mike O Connor, plymouth,

You can easily draw a straight line from "underlying problems causing anti-social behavior" in the UK to a lack of prison space: The ASBO is nothing more than a form of probation needed because there's no place to incarcerate the thugs... And they know it, hence they are not deterred.

Dan, Sayreville, NJ, USA

The solution is to introduce the US style three strikes law. The third conviction for any serious offence results in an offender being sentenced to life in prison. It works. The alternative to prison is sterilization; if nothing else it would stop animals breeding!

peterj, Aberdeen, uk

Another example of sound bite politics and empty threats for short term popularity. Having created an underclass where we now have three generations in a family who have not worked and relied upon the State we are surprised when they don't behave properly. Get real.

Geoff Lusk, Margueron, France

"accetable behaviour contracts", "anti-social behaviour orders",
"Operation Leopard"; all NuLabour "initiatives". Why not just conscript them, and send them you-know-where? That worked in previous centuries. And the Government won't have to worry about investing in pensions. A winner all 'roun

Bill Peter, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

What! ASBO's not working?

Is there anyone except government ministers suprised?

There is one simple, undisputable fact in this complex issue.

Yobbish behavour has massively increased under Labour.

Another failure to add to to list.

Richard, Manchester,

Perhaps it is time for: "A short sharp shock on the chippy chippy block".

James Pawlak, West Allis, USA