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Book Review: BIOLOG Y AND CRIME. By C. Ray Jeffery (Ed.) Sage Research Progress Series in Criminology, Vol. 10. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979, pp. 160

1978 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Published by Sage in cooperation with the Society, the book at once helps to legitimize the topic of biology and crime within the discipline and marks in a significant way the revival of interest in psychobiological factors. It is also, no doubt, something of a personal triumph for its editor, C. Ray Jeffery, immediate past President of the ASC, and an outspoken but lonely advocate of interdisciplinary research for many years. With the appearance of this volume, and Len Hippchen’s anthology two years ago (Ecological-Biochemical Approaches to Treatment of Delinquents and Criminals, Van Nostrand), it is no longer acceptable to deride biosocial criminology as &dquo;neo-Lombrosian&dquo; or to