Courtroom contrition: how do judges know?Footnote^*

* This article is a revised version of a paper presented jointly by the authors at Emotions in Legal Practices: Historical and Modern Attitudes Compared, a conference organised by the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100–1800, at the University of Sydney, 26–28 September 2016. The authors would like to thank the conference organisers and participants.

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