Although the broader ‘punitive turn’ is important in relation to ASB and it is clear that much of the local policy change is driven by the politicization of crime control, nowhere more clearly than in policing practice, focussing on the representations of the rural and the everyday lives of those in Crian and Abanoch (Halfacree, 2006) allows the relationships between rurality, the police and their response to ASB to be drawn out.