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I can't help thinking that we'd be in a better place as a society if we assigned a notional value of, for example, 1 human lifetime per ten million dollars lost through financial crimes, and punished white collar criminals who cause >= $10M in damage as if they'd committed the corresponding number of murders. (Lower the valuation if you want: $10M is plausibly a working lifetime’s earnings for a very well-paid professional. I went high because I'd rather err on the side of mercy.)
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Eerie Chipmunk the deaths already happen, people genuinely die when their life savings are stolen. People just lose hope and the death rate goes up. And that's why we get occasional social upsets about suicides during droughts or industry closures.
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