ABSTRACT
This brief chapter looks back on the variety of evidence supporting the view that biosocial criminology is the storm that will stir the stagnant waters of criminology and forward to its prospects of becoming the paradigm for the 21st century when the storm abates. I began by attempting to convince sociologically trained criminologists to at least examine the possibility that the biosocial sciences can provide valuable insight and promote further understanding of the phenomena of criminality. I hope that I have demonstrated that the key to progress in other sciences has been to maintain consistency with the methods, theories, and concepts of the more fundamental sciences. History has shown that initial opposition to such integration based on supposed threats to the younger disciplines’ autonomy soon dissipated when the benefi ts the older disciplines offered became apparent.
