[Rockingham]

Even hardened criminals tend to mellow out and reappraise their lives as they get older. A friend of mine who was a lifelong prosecutor used to say that most criminals aged out of crime when they got to be thirty-five or forty years old. His net assessment was that the criminal justice system tended to be too soft on young criminals and too hard on older ones, and too easy on those who lived off crime and too hard on those who got caught when they yielded to an isolated criminal opportunity.

[Yardstick]

His net assessment was that the criminal justice system tended to be too soft on young criminals and too hard on older ones, and too easy on those who lived off crime and too hard on those who got caught when they yielded to an isolated criminal opportunity.
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That sounds like a very on target assessment.