ABSTRACT
Summarising the book's most important findings, this concluding chapter asks how insights from the previous chapters feed into the topic of legal practices more broadly and also widens the comparative scope of the study. Probing deeper into the study's comparative element, the chapter teases apart differences and similarities in what judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Scotland get angry about. The chapter further advances our knowledge of the routes taken by legal anger and the ways in which anger transitions in and out of neighbouring emotions. Returning to the central question of the rationality of anger, the discussion critically scrutinises the importance of situation and perspective when considering the consequences of legal anger. Finally, the chapter contextualises the findings within a bigger picture, mapping them onto socio-economic and cultural features of each of the countries examined.
