Young people who breach anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) should be given community orders rather than custodial sentences, according to the Sentencing Advisory Panel. The advisory panel made the proposal in a consultation paper last week and recommended that if young people breach their Asbo, custody should not be “inevitable”. The Consultation paper on breach of an anti-social behaviour order states: “In principle custody should be used less frequently for youths, so the threshold should be set at a higher level than the custody threshold for adults. Even where the custody threshold is crossed a custodial sentence will not be inevitable. The younger...