CRIMINAL LAW – Sentencing – Restatement of Tsiaras principles – Whether Tsiaras principles limited to "serious psychiatric illness not amounting to mental insanity" – Whether and to what extent general deterrence excluded or modified as sentencing consideration – Whether and to what extent impaired mental functioning may reduce moral culpability of offending conduct – Whether relevant to sentencing that imprisonment would carry serious risk of significant adverse effect on offender’s mental health – R v Tsiaras [1996] VicRp 26; [1996] 1 VR 398 considered.
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