ID S1118

Establishes a state policy prioritizing community placement over imprisonment, requiring courts to impose the minimum confinement necessary for public protection, offense gravity, and defendant rehabilitation needs.

Lists sentencing goals as protection of society, risk reduction through rehabilitation, deterrence, and punishment, with each sentence tailored to the individual defendant and totality of relevant facts and circumstances.

Specifies 10 factors favoring avoidance of imprisonment, including lack of harm caused, defendant's amenability to treatment, clean criminal history, and victim compensation.

Specifies 5 factors favoring imprisonment, including risk of reoffending during probation, depreciation of crime seriousness, punishment, deterrence, and status as multiple or professional offender.

Defines "criminogenic needs" as dynamic factors associated with likelihood of reoffending that may be changed through effective intervention.