Where an offender's drug-related offending is connected to childhood trauma and PTSD, both personal and general deterrence may be moderated but not ignored, and the need for community protection may outweigh mitigating subjective factors where rehabilitation prospects are bleak. An early plea of guilty warrants an approximately 25 per cent discount. The totality principle requires significant concurrency between associated offences of burglary and theft.
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