Crime and the Power of Emotions

While we may assume that emotions don't play a part in legal decision-making, the truth is...⠀
Emotions have a significant impact on our decisions about punishment.⠀
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[ID: Crime and the power of emotions is written in blue font with text that reads "Johnson (2009) found that emotions and punitiveness are strongly intertwined; specifically, anger about crime is related to support for punitive criminal penalties. Hartnagel and Templeton (2012) argued that anger’s effect on punitiveness may reflect a desire for retribution for crimes. Anger is one of the strongest emotional reactions to crime. This experience of anger is in turn related to the desire to demean and exclude offenders (e.g., incarcerate) (Côté-Lussier 2013)." There are also references written in orange font reading: "Johnson (2009) Emotional attention set-shifting and its relationship to anxiety and emotion regulation. Emotion, 9(5), 681.⠀
Hartnagel and Templeton (2012) Emotions about crime and attitudes to punishment. Punishment & Society, 14(4), 452-474.⠀
Côté-Lussie (2013) Fight fire with fire: The effect of perceived anger on punitive intuitions. Emotion, 13, 999-1003." End of description.]