Where co-offenders in a joint criminal enterprise have clearly differentiated roles — particularly where one is subservient to the other due to a controlling family relationship — a marginal difference in sentence (here, 3 months in non-parole periods) may be insufficient to reflect the disparity in culpability. The principle that retribution may be reduced for young offenders due to emotional immaturity can apply to offenders in their early twenties where personal circumstances demonstrate a pervasive element of immaturity, not only to juveniles or very young adults.
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