Harmful industries portray themselves as victims of an unjust legal system

Evidence

In this portrayal of the legal process, the industry often viewed itself as the victim of opportunistic plaintiffs who were manipulated by crooked lawyers and quack doctors and as judged by confused lay jurists. It was the system, they contended, not the industry that was at fault. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1809

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the reader’s goal: victim-perpetrator reversal is Bandura’s disengagement mechanism at work in an industry context, paralleling claims about how ordinary people rationalize supporting punitive policy against out-groups.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1809