Section 16-1-2 - Purposes of title

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.