Among the industrialized nation, United States has one of the most toughest penalties for various crimes which leads to people getting arrested more often and end up spending more time in jail. Most of the people that commit serious crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and burglary tend to stop in their mid 20s and 30s according to the research conducted by the Criminologist Alfred Blumstein. In most cases, people are still serving time in a prison when they are physically and mentally weak to be able to commit a crime. According to the author of “Too Old to Commit Crime,” Mr Dana Goldstein, 47 percent of the federal inmates are serving sentences of more than 10 years longer than the typical duration of a criminal career.
