Purposes of Title

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Crimes and Offenses
  4. General Provisions
  5. Purposes of Title

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The general purposes of this title are:

  1. To forbid and prevent conduct which unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests;
  2. To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence authorized upon conviction;
  3. To define that which constitutes each crime; and
  4. To prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the seriousness of crimes and which permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual criminals.

(Code 1933, § 26-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 16A Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 427. 16B Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 972. 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, § 15 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 22 C.J.S., Criminal Law: Substantive Principles, §§ 8, 23.


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