It might be a cultural thing to average levels of criminality from the top and bottom.  Much like Americans believe some things to be binary or some things to be a spectrum, perhaps in Denmark criminality is binary, either you are and they throw the average sized book at all of them, or you aren&#x27;t.<p>As an anecdote this is the same Denmark that went insane over a retailer selling Marmite, costing many thousands of euro in fines and punishments.  That would fit the pattern of once the binary switch flips from non-criminal to criminal, a medium sized book is thrown at all miscreants.<p>Another possible anecdote is I know their neighbors, and probably the Danes also, punish drunken driving similar to how attempted murder is treated in the US.  That would also fit the theory.