Crime is an issue with severe consequences for individuals, economies, and society at large. Developing effective crime prevention strategies requires a clear understanding of who is likely to engage in crime and why. A promising approach in this regard likely is integrating established criminological theories with established models of basic personality structure. Correspondingly, the present investigation derives hypotheses from three criminological theories-self-control theory/general theory of crime, situational action theory, and general strain theory-on the relation between the HEXACO personality dimensions and crime. The preregistered hypotheses were tested by linking HEXACO data of a Danish adult personality panel (N = 12,496) to official records on all criminal convictions of the participants registered within the past 41 years. Results revealed negative associations of honesty-humility, emotionality, agreeableness versus anger, and conscientiousness with crime (0.71 ≤ odds ratios ≤ 0.88). Except for agreeableness, effects were robust to controlling for relevant background variables (e.g., sex, age, education, income). The relation of the HEXACO dimensions varied only slightly across different types of offenses (e.g., interpersonal crimes, property crimes). In sum, this investigation provides a robust theoretical and empirical basis for how personality relates to crime. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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基本性格和实际的刑事定罪。


犯罪是一个对个人、经济和整个社会造成严重后果的问题。制定有效的犯罪预防策略需要清楚地了解谁可能参与犯罪以及为什么参与犯罪。在这方面，一个很有前途的方法可能是将已建立的犯罪学理论与已建立的基本人格结构模型相结合。相应地，本调查从三种犯罪学理论中得出假设——自我控制理论/一般犯罪理论、情境行动理论和一般应变理论——关于 HEXACO 人格维度与犯罪之间的关系。通过将丹麦成人性格小组 （N = 12,496） 的 HEXACO 数据与过去 41 年内注册的参与者的所有刑事定罪的官方记录相关联，对预先注册的假设进行了检验。结果显示，诚实-谦逊、情绪化、宜人与愤怒以及责任心与犯罪呈负相关 （0.71 ≤ 比值比 ≤ 0.88）。除了宜人性外，影响对控制相关背景变量 （例如，性别、年龄、教育、收入） 是稳健的。HEXACO 维度的关系在不同类型的犯罪（例如，人际犯罪、财产犯罪）中仅略有不同。总之，这项调查为人格与犯罪的关系提供了强有力的理论和实证基础。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。