, then far more adept at manipulating others and concealing their behavior. They are generally considered to be not only incurable but also untreatable. Psychopaths also have a markedly distorted sense of the potential consequences of their actions, not only for others, but also for themselves. They do not, for example, deeply recognize the risk of being caught, disbelieved or injured as a result of their behaviour. Criticism Some criticisms of rehabilitative systems are that they can authorize lengthy restrictions of liberty (to allow time for diagnosis and treatment) and broad assumptions of governmental power over offenders' personalities. Moreover, due process concerns can be implicated by a lack of traditional safeguards of defendants' procedural rights in rehabilitative processes. Some rehabilitative programs, such as drug courts, have also been criticized for widening the net of penal control by sentencing more defendants to prison for violations of treatment regimes than would have gone to prison in the absence of those programs. See also Antisocial personality disorder Diversion program Exodus Ministries Koestler Trust Susanna Meredith Rehabilitation policy Social integration References The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. External links "The Debate on Rehabilitating Criminals: Is It True that Nothing Works?" by Jerome G. Miller, D.S.W. (printed in The Washington Post, March 1989) Bastoy: the Norwegian prison that works. The Guardian. Author – Erwin James. Published 4 September 2013. I toured prisons around the world — and the system that seems the most relaxed is also one that works. Business Insider. Author – Baz Dreisinger. Published 19 July 2018. How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours. BBC News. Published 7 July 2019. Criminal law Penology Positive criminology Punishment