The general purposes of the provisions governing the definition of offenses are: (1) To forbid and prevent conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably inflicts or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests; (2) To subject to public control persons whose conduct indicates that they are disposed to commit crimes; (3) To safeguard conduct that is without fault and which is essentially victimless in its effect from condemnation as criminal; (4) To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct declared to constitute an offense; and (5) To differentiate on reasonable grounds between serious and minor offenses.
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