The sense of emotions in criminal law.
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Criminal law, emotions, punishment, rationalization, retribution, shame.
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This article is a review of the role that emotions should have in law and, more specifically, in the criminal law. It also examines the possible effects it has -or should have- for the criminal law, the admission of emotionally charged penalties and the role that should be played by the rationalization of punishment in such cases.
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