Criminal menopause is an informal term describing a decrease in anti-social behavior that correlates with human aging.
Marie Gottschalk writes in Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics: The evidence that people age out of crime is compelling.
[3]According to the author of a Los Angeles Review of Books article on prison reform in California, "Ed Bunker, the celebrated novelist who spent 18 years behind bars, including a stint in San Quentin as the youngest prisoner ever to enter the institution, would always tell me: 'crime is a young man's game.
'"[4] There is a complicated moral, financial and social calculus to be made by states that hold large populations of aging criminals.
[1] One study found that the recidivism rate of ex-convicts who had served more than 25 years of prison time was "essentially zero.