公众法感情是指以理性的法律意识和本国传统道德文化为基础、以实现法的法律效果与社会效果相统一为目的指向的情感诉求。它属于理性的法律意识,要求刑事司法应当首先尊重和遵循法律逻辑;它也是一种道德文化诉求,其作用机制根植于传统道德文化之中,刑事司法要注重对传统道德文化的吸收。公众法感情与民意之间在主体范围、理性的内涵、利益性质等方面存在区别。 Public law affection refers to the emotional appeal that aims at realizing the unification of law’s legal effect and social effect on the basis of rational legal awareness and its own traditional moral culture. It belongs to rational legal consciousness, and requires that criminal justice should first of all respect and follow legal logic. It is also a kind of moral and cultural appeal. Its mechanism of action is rooted in traditional moral culture. Criminal justice should pay attention to the absorption of traditional moral culture. Differences exist between the feeling of the public law and the public opinion in the scope of the subject, the connotation of the rational, the nature of the interest, and so on.