No freely accessible source states a specific founding year or coinage date. The Wikipedia article on the field discusses its modern revival only in general terms with no year attached. The Journal of Criminal Justice Education's 2022 history article, the most likely place such a year would be stated precisely, is paywalled (HTTP 403 on direct fetch, 2026-08-29). The predecessor depth wave (w-depth-crime-theories-0828) independently named C. Ray Jeffery's 1977 interdisciplinary-criminology work as the closest candidate but found no single fetchable source stating a precise founding year with a verbatim sentence to cite.
What would resolve this Access to the paywalled 2022 Journal of Criminal Justice Education history article (see the BlockedFetch row registered in this same file), or any other citable source giving a specific year for the field's modern naming or the coinage of the term "biosocial criminology".
OpenHistory of criminologyWikipedia: Biosocial Criminology