Recommendation 5

We recommend that victims of non-criminal anti-social behaviour who meet the threshold for a ‘Community Trigger’ should be recognised as victims for the purposes of the Bill and be entitled to rights under the revised Victims’ Code. We think this is in line with the Government’s aim of achieving a culture change in the attitude towards victims among criminal justice agencies and recognises that anti- social behaviour can have as much of an impact on those affected by it as criminal conduct. (Paragraph 17) 52 Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Victims Bill