It ia pretty clear that there is a class bias in the way crime is punished in most societies.
I like the Scandinavian idea of scaling certain fines (e.g. for speeding) with the income of a person or at least introduce a point based system where you temporarily loose your drivers license when you you accumulated three points. Otherwise you have a society where the same wrongdoing destroys the existence of one person and barely bothers the other one outside of paying a (for them) small amount of money.
White collar crime is even worse in these regards. If you steal X units of currency from a cash register you will usually get more punishment than if you steal 1000X units of currency through some simple white collar scheme.
I like the Scandinavian idea of scaling certain fines (e.g. for speeding) with the income of a person or at least introduce a point based system where you temporarily loose your drivers license when you you accumulated three points. Otherwise you have a society where the same wrongdoing destroys the existence of one person and barely bothers the other one outside of paying a (for them) small amount of money.
White collar crime is even worse in these regards. If you steal X units of currency from a cash register you will usually get more punishment than if you steal 1000X units of currency through some simple white collar scheme.
And that needs to be adressed.