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)
