Professor Emeritus
Peter Yeager taught at Boston University from 1982 to 2014. His sociological research focused on law and white-collar crime. Yeager is the author of Corporate Crime (The Free Press/Macmillan 1980, 1983; Routledge, 2017) and The Limits of Law (Cambridge University Press, 1991, 1993, 2010). He is co-author of US Department of Justice studies “Illegal Corporate Behavior” (1979; 314 pages) and “Building a Comprehensive White-Collar Violations Data System, Final Technical Report” (2015; 174 pages). He continues his research on corporate malfeasance and publishes essays on social and political issues, language, and personal stories in his blog Frog in the Pot.