White-collar criminals get lighter sentences than blue-collar ones.

   Justice is supposed to be blind. Yet a fraudster in pinstripes with
   an important job in the City might expect a more lenient sentence
   than a single mother who cheats the benefit system.

   The Government finally faced up to this uncomfortable fact last week
   when the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith QC, said too many 
   businessmen and members of the professional classes were getting off
   with light sentences.

   Lord Goldsmith told an audience of lawyers and law enforcement 
   agents at a conference on economic crime: "It is notable how often
   [white-collar] defendants receive non-custodial and suspended
   sentences despite committing serious crime."

   Robert Verkaik
   16 September 2003

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=443924

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