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Which industries accounted for many corporate-law violations in the Clinard and Yeager study?

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In the study Illegal Corporate Behavior, 1975–1976 (1979), American criminologists Marshall Clinard and Peter Yeager found that the oil, pharmaceutical, and automobile industries were responsible for almost half of all corporate-law violations identified among the large organizations they investigated.1