Article 1 - Short Title, Purposes

(730 ILCS 5/Ch. I Art. 1 heading)ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES

    (730 ILCS 5/1‑1‑1) (from Ch. 38, par. 1001‑1‑1)
    Sec. 1‑1‑1. Short title.
    This Code shall be known and may be cited as the Unified Code of Corrections.
(Source: P. A. 77‑2097.)

    (730 ILCS 5/1‑1‑2) (from Ch. 38, par. 1001‑1‑2)
    Sec. 1‑1‑2. Purposes.
    The purposes of this Code of Corrections are to:

(a) prescribe sanctions proportionate to the seriousness of the offenses and permit the recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual offenders;

    (b) forbid and prevent the commission of offenses;
    (c) prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment of persons adjudicated offenders or delinquents; and
    (d) restore offenders to useful citizenship.
(Source: P. A. 77‑2097.)