Where an offender's mental illness both diminishes moral culpability and creates a high risk of serious re-offending, the need for community protection may very substantially neutralise or completely remove the ameliorating effect of mental illness on sentence, resulting in a sentence equivalent to what would have been imposed absent the mental illness. Post-Hogarth sentencing practices for confrontational aggravated burglaries apply to mentally ill offenders; the mitigating benefits of mental illness are weighed in the individualised sentencing synthesis and do not exempt the offender from current sentencing standards.
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