Late modern criminal justice has increased the space for the expression of emotions. The primordial emotions of anger and vengeance, but also shame, remorse and forgiveness, on which human justice and punishment is built, come to the fore and fora, testifying to the endurance of emotions in law across human history. The intrusion of emotions into legal institutions poses new challenges to the regulation of emotions and requires that the emotional capacity of criminal justice is enhanced. The framework of emotion sharing provides a tool for understanding the cognitive-emotional processes and emotion dynamics in contemporary criminal justice settings.