The International Society for Criminology marked in 2013 the 75th anniversary of its foundation in Rome, Italy in 1938. Since the founding of the Society, criminology as a field has grown exponentially as an academic discipline, a research field, a policy-making tool, and a source of different approaches, solutions, and interventions. During these 75 years, the discipline has been able to establish its identity, gain a measure of autonomy, delimit its area of research and inquiry, demonstrate its usefulness, expand its influence, and deepen its impact. This has been accomplished because of the work of countless scholars, researchers and professionals and especially thanks to the Society and its journal, the Annals.