Considerations of rehabilitation, even rehabilitation beneficial to the community, do not displace considerations of general and personal deterrence and objective seriousness when assessing the minimum term for armed robbery offences. Fresh evidence of post-sentence rehabilitation is not available to demonstrate sentencing error, as the Court of Criminal Appeal sits as a court of error. An order under s 19 of the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 may direct that a sentence be served in a juvenile justice centre beyond the offender's 21st birthday until the expiration of the minimum term.
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