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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 16 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES (§§ 16-1-1 — 16-17-10)
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 16-1-1 — 16-1-12)
Section 16-1-2 - Purposes of title
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GA Code § 16-1-2 (2024)
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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.
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