In her conversations with clubbers and pubbers in north-west England, Ms Measham says, almost no one knows anyone who has been caught, still less processed by the police: “in places it amounts to informal decriminalisation.”

Measham女士在她与英格兰西北部地区夜店工作者的谈话中曾说，很少有人知道警察抓到谁，警方处理力度也不够，“在某些地方这已经变得一种非正式合法化的现象”。