Brendan Sturgeon
bsturgeon01@qub.ac.uk
Research
'ANTI-SOCIAL ACTIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY NORTHERN IRELAND: A POLITICAL
ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES' The aim of this study is to inspect the levels of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) in British society today; and examine the responses of our politicians, police force and community groups. The core hypothesis of the study will be to question whether our politicians and police force have efficiently offered effective solutions to ASB, or have the failings of our authorities left the pursuit of ASB
resolution to community groups? Has the failure of our politicians and police force to eliminate ASB led to certain sections of society taking the problem into their own hands, with the formation of community groups across the breadth of the UK?
Supervisors: Prof Richard English, Prof Sally Wheeler