super ASBO

plural super ASBOs

1. UKinformallawserious crime prevention order; a civil injunction used to prevent certain serious crimes

   Part 1 of the SCA creates Serious Crime Prevention Orders (dubbed super ASBOs) designed to restrict or disrupt those involved in serious crime.

   2019, Michael J. Allen, Ian Edwards, chapter 8, in Criminal Law, Fifteenth edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, Encouraging or assisting offences (section 8.2), page 305

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   Serious crime prevention orders (SCPOs) were introduced in the Serious Crime Act 2007 (SCA 2007), Pt 1 on 30 October 2007. Dubbed “super ASBOs” by the media, these are civil orders which may be made independently of criminal proceedings against those suspected of involvement in serious crime.

   2008, Jill Lorimer, “Super ASBOs”, in New Law Journal, number 7303

   Ferguson was also given a serious crime prevention order - a so-called Super Asbo - designed to curb criminal behaviour once released from prison.

   2023 March 30, “Drugs gang boss nicknamed Titanium Otter jailed”, in BBC