I read someplace that shoplifting gets you up to a to a year. Falling behind on your car payments gets jail time too, although I don’t remember how much. There are a surprising number of abandoned luxury vehicles where the owner decided to leave the car and the UAE rather than face the punishment for falling behind on the payments. While I think that just letting the bank repossess the car would be good enough, I have to agree on the penalty for shoplifting. If our shoplifters got a year every time they committed the crime I suspect the “shrinkage” would slow to a trickle.
Another place that has a very low crime rate, miniscule drug use, and “homeless” is Singapore.
I guess cracking down on criminals and druggies works!