Many states have passed, and the Supreme Court has upheld, penalties for sex offenders that allow them to be detained after they have served their sentences or that force them to register as sex offenders for an extended period of time. These laws are predicated on multiple unacceptable premises and should be opposed by Objectivists. In this lecture, Dr. Robinson will discuss the proposed rationales for these laws and why they should be philosophically and pragmatically rejected.
Christopher Robinson is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This lecture grew out of courses that Prof. Robinson teaches on Human Sexuality, on Learning Theory, and on Forensic Psychology.