Personality disorders are not categorically excluded from the De La Rosa sentencing principles as a matter of law. Each case must be determined on its own facts, and where unchallenged expert evidence establishes a connection between a diagnosed personality disorder and the offending, the sentencing court must consider that evidence in assessing moral culpability and the weight to be given to deterrence. An offender's lack of prior criminal convictions remains a significant mitigating factor in domestic violence cases and does not 'assume less significance' merely because of the domestic violence context.
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