 What is the danger of using certain pictures to represent people in court?
Through a study of 1,856 images ("controlled for race, gender, age and facial expression") they claim to have established the validity of "automated, face-induced inference on criminality, despite the historical controversy surrounding this line of enquiry." In other words, they believe that they've found a relationship between looking like a criminal and actually being one. In a social media age, the pictures we choose to represent ourselves online are a form of self-presentation driven by those social attributions and the knowledge that our pictures are being judged.
 The pictures can elicit negative or guilty connotations, which can influence a jury or the public before a trial.
 The pictures can cause further emotional distress for families who have been affected by a perpetrator.  The pictures can elicit negative or guilty connotations, which can influence a jury or the public before a trial.  The pictures may have been edited in order to make the defendant look more guilty of criminal behavior.  The pictures may not represent what the person look like during the time they were accused of committing the crime.