Basic personality and actual criminal convictions.

= 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) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).