In sentencing for social security fraud, childhood deprivation operates as a discrete factor diminishing moral culpability under Bugmy, without the need to establish a causal nexus between the deprivation and the offending. This applies even where general deterrence is the dominant sentencing consideration. Sentencing judges must separately consider childhood deprivation as a mitigating factor distinct from any mental health nexus to the offending.
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