Fun summary: Civil order that it is a crime to breach. So you could get slapped with one on "balance of probabilities" while becoming criminalised for somethin

Fun summary: Civil order that it is a crime to breach. So you could get slapped with one on "balance of probabilities" while becoming criminalised for something fairly arbitrary like entering an area or being drunk. I seem to recall somebody was given an ASBO forbidding them from having noisy sex - which they subsequently did and then faced criminal sanction.