You have a good writing style Joel, but I’m afraid our knowledge doesn’t seem to extend much further than what your law professors want you to believe.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
“the varied role the law must play in facilitating rehabilitation, the restoration of harm and deterrence.”
Check most state’s sentencing act and it will declare goals as : rehabilitation, deterrence, warehousing (protection of community), and recognition of severity of crime, amongst others. Rehab is about 25% of role of sentencing. When you give a paltry sentence for premeditated killing by a repeat offender you are making it instead about 75%.
Also please give evidence of rehabilitation working. And some offenders not re offending is not necessarily evidence as some see the light going through the system without any special treatment by “trained psychologists”.

“they must also account for the fact that those who commit crimes are in part a product of their circumstances.”
Yeah right, society is to blame. No child of wealthy well balanced parents who gave junior a good home and education, has ever committed a crime? Everyone who suffered through the Great Depression became abusive drunks, killers or thieves?

“He fails to understand it is not the job of the judiciary to mirror community interest but that of parliament”
Hello Joel, we live in a democracy. It very much is the job of the judiciary. If and when there is any difference between the viewpoints of the people and parliament, it is obviously the parliament that is out of kilter. When was the last time a polly ran for office declaring he will not give the public the law and order it wants because he knows better