Rational Anger

An International Comparison of Legal Systems
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-36177-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

Exploring the rationales behind legal anger, its logic and origins, this book builds on the perspectives of judges and prosecutors in Italy, Sweden, the United States, and Scotland.

When do judges and prosecutors become angry in court, what do they become angry about, and which other emotions open up for anger? Anger brings people to court and is essential in evaluating wrongdoing and attributing blame, but at the same time, anger is seen as a threat to well-reasoned and just decision-making. Drawing on observations, interviews, and shadowing of legal professionals, the text demonstrates how anger is entangled with legal thought and comes into play in legal practices. By comparing the workings and displays of anger found in different legal systems and emotional cultures, the book elucidates assumptions about law, morality, truth, and emotions that we commonly take for granted.

Rational Anger will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, law, social psychology, and organisation studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tornqvist, Nina

Bergman Blix, Stina

Törnqvist, Nina

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Nagging narratives. Chapter 3. Timely temper. Chapter 4. Respectable rage. Chapter 5. Discussion

Über Autor(innen)

Stina Bergman Blix is Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University. She studies emotions in professional work, rationality, law, theatre, and qualitative methods. She is principal investigator of an international comparative project (JUSTEMOTIONS) funded by the European Research Council investigating the emotive-cognitive process of judicial decision-making. Her work has been published in journals such as Symbolic Interaction, Emotion Review, and Qualitative Research and she co-authored Professional Emotions in Court: A Sociological Perspective (Routledge, 2018).

Nina Törnqvist has a PhD in Criminology from Stockholm University and is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. Her main research interests include legal professionals, emotions, victimology, narratives, and qualitative methods. After working in the JUSTEMOTIONS project, she is currently engaged in research projects on The emotional dynamic of police and crime victim interactions in IPV investigations and on Justice and accountability for business involvement in international crimes.