Gómez Lanz, Francisco Javier Gimenez-Salinas Framis, Andrea Pérez Ramírez, Meritxell Lagunas Coca, Francisco 2025-09-04T07:09:52Z 2025-09-04T07:09:52Z 2025-08-09 0163-9625 https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2025.2543045 Artículos en revistas . This study examines the characteristics of white-collar offenders by comparing 349 convicted individuals in Spain with 157 business professionals without criminal records. A multiple-factor analysis identifies subgroups based on sociodemographic, psychological, and criminological factors. Findings reveal key differences pointing to heightened economic and family instability among white-collar offenders. Psychologically, offenders score higher in agreeableness and openness but lower in social dominance and hierarchical assertiveness. Multiple Factor Analysis identifies two subgroups. Cluster 1 shows higher levels of childhood adversities, substance use, and psychopathy. In contrast, Cluster 2 demonstrates high agreeability, openness, and tradition-focused values, diverging from business professionals’ profiles of higher Machiavellianism and narcissism. These findings stress the heterogeneity of white-collar offenders, refuting the assumption of uniformityand underscoring the interplay of individual and socioenvironmental factors. This study situates white-collar crime within deviance studies by showing that it follows two paths: one born of socio-economic strain, the other of calculated opportunity. application/pdf en-GB Revista: Deviant Behavior, Periodo: 1, Volumen: ., Número: ., Página inicial: 1, Página final: 19 Derecho Penal y Criminología Business Professionals and White-Collar Offenders: A Comparative Analysis and Offender Subtypes info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion embargado info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess .. .