People Committing Occupational Crimes

    Usually have high standard of education

    From a non-criminal family background

    Middle class male around 27 years of age (70% of the time) with no previous history

    No involvement in drug or alcohol abuse

    Those who had troublesome life experience in the childhood (Blum)

    People without firm principles (Spencer)

    Firms with declining profitability (Coleman, 1994)

    Firms  in  highly  regulated  areas  and  volatile  market  -pharmaceutical,  petroleum industry.(Albanese, 1995)