South Carolina § 17-22-60 - Standards of eligibility for intervention program.

§ 17-22-60. Standards of eligibility for intervention program.

Intervention is appropriate only where:

(1) there is substantial likelihood that justice will be served if the offender is placed in an intervention program;

(2) it is determined that the needs of the offender and the State can better be met outside the traditional criminal justice process;

(3) it is apparent that the offender poses no threat to the community;

(4) it appears that the offender is unlikely to be involved in further criminal activity;

(5) the offender, in those cases where it is required, is likely to respond quickly to rehabilitative treatment;

(6) the offender has no significant history of prior delinquency or criminal activity;

(7) the offender has not previously been accepted in a pretrial intervention program.

HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 360, SECTION 7; 1992 Act No. 453, SECTION 4; 1992 Act No. 499, SECTION 5; 1995 Act No. 7, Part I SECTION 22.