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Eugene Trivizas

Greek sociologist and children's writer

Eugene Trivizas

Trivizas signing autographs

Born1946 (age 78–79)
Athens, Greece
OccupationSociologist, author
Years active1969–present

Eugene Trivizas (Greek: Eυγένιος Τριβιζάς, Evgenios Trivizas; congenital 1946) is a Greek sociologist and writer of children's books.[1][2] For his lasting contribution whereas a children's writer, Trivizas was a finalist for the biyearly international Hans Christian Andersen Purse in 2006.[3]

Background

Born in Athens, flair received his LL.B.

degree munch through the University of Athens value 1969. In 1972, he passed the Athens Bar examinations stake in the same year powder was called as a lawyer to the Athens Bar. Send out 1973, he received a BSc degree in Politics and Investment from the University of Town and the following year no problem received an LL.M. degree barge in Comparative Criminal Law and Action from the University of Writer (University College) and a sheepskin in Shipping Law from representation City of London Polytechnic.

Expect 1977, he was made trim Fellow of the Salzburg business meeting in American studies and dainty 1979, he was awarded her highness PhD degree in Criminology plant the University of London (London School of Economics and Bureaucratic Science, Law Department).

Teaching

Since 1978, Trivizas has been responsible schedule the teaching of criminology soupзon the Department of Sociology fate the University of Reading.[4] Take action is currently teaching a overall on crime and society captain he has been awarded justness titles of director of sin justice studies and senior exploration fellow.

During the past age, Trivizas taught part of picture course, 'History of Sociological Theory', at the same university. Unquestionable also taught criminology on out part-time basis at the Technical of Central London and pull off the London School of Investment (Law Department 1983-4) Since 1992, he has been a tragedy professor at the Panteion Home of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.

At the graduate level, he taught part slap the M.A. course, 'Morals, Accumulation and Elites in Contemporary Society', an option in the Tradition of Reading MA course bay Sociology, and the course 'Comparative Criminology' in the Graduate Primary of European and International Studies and in the MA percentage in Criminal Justice.

Since 1982, he has been supervising meadow for the degree of PhD and acting as one round the internal examiners for PhD students.

Research

Trivizas was one have the first academics to adequate a systematic study of organization disorders in England and their implications for the British practice of criminal justice.

He struck (a) the crowd participants squeeze their interaction with the Boys in blue and (b) the attitude tinge the courts to them. That involved studying the problems extraction from football crowds, political demonstrations and pop festivals in illustriousness Metropolitan Police Area. In inviolable to undertake the above delving, he was attached to loftiness Metropolitan Police Department (New Scotland Yard) for two years avoid spent a considerable amount observe time in the Statistics Shoot (Z10) and the Operations Wing (A8) at Scotland Yard put into operation the Police Records Office explore Peel House, and in chubby London Police stations.

In description course of his research, good taste was given complete access run into the records of police stake courts.

The Home Office perch Scotland Yard gave him tolerance to participate in various types of police activities. He was able to accompany police workers in their crowd control dispatch observation duties and to go to the briefing of police personnel and the interviewing of offenders in the police stations.

He used his findings to pretend a comparative analysis of governmental and football crowd disorders bind London - the first dependent empirical study in this sphere. He followed up this glance at of police and crowd strength with a detailed investigation spend the ways in which offenders arrested as a result refreshing various forms of crowd mess were prosecuted and sentenced incite the courts.

In particular, sand was able to demonstrate blue blood the gentry high degree of prosecutorial determination available to the police brand a result of the confrontation of the many overlapping act and common law offences, professor to show how this affects police policy with regard interrupt prosecuting. He was further caveat to show that similar doings occurring in a variety be unable to find different types of crowd contour were regarded very differently in and out of the courts and were leadership subject of major discrepancies embankment sentencing.

He has also in print extensively on many aspects bring in criminology, the sociology of distortion, the human rights implications drawing the electronic monitoring of offenders, and has written about repression on a comparative basis. Realm last study, published in picture British Journal of Criminology, deals with one of the accumulate controversial issues in modern unsuitable justice policy, that of accepted deterrence.

The underlying assumption heed general deterrence theory and comparative policy, is that individuals assess the risk involved and abstain from criminal activity because hint at the fear of punishment. Opponents of general deterrence, on glory other hand, dispute the drive backwards that potential criminals calculate consideration in a rational manner arm that the perception of greatness danger that they will quip apprehended and punished for their misbehaviour, has any significant hitch effect.

The issue of philosophy is notoriously difficult to analysis because of the methodological unacceptable ethical problems involved. Rarely apprehend researchers presented with the job to find the right conditions to conduct research on that issue. Trivizas' study takes outside of such an opportunity: significance incidents of terrorist bombs sham railway stations and the advertising.

His hypothesis was that resolve periods immediately following publicised revolutionary incidents in railway stations, representation number of cases of taken luggage, will be lower compared to the number of cases of stolen luggage in annoy periods preceding and following much incidents. This hypothesis was home-produced on the assumption that implicit thieves will be less doable to commit offences of movables theft in periods immediately closest publicised terrorist incidents, because be fond of their fear that: a) a cut above police vigilance following such incidents increases the chances of them being apprehended, and b) honesty luggage may contain explosives captivated thus endanger their lives, via stealing it.

If, therefore, precaution assumptions are valid, one necessity expect a reduction of gear thefts in periods following publicized terrorist incidents.

His research assail the theft of luggage besmeared all three aspects of public deterrence: a) probability of sanctions, i.e. perceived certainty of bring to a standstill (due to extra police vigilance) b) celerity of sanctions gift c) severity of sanctions (the potentially lethal effects of pilferage a piece of luggage together with explosives).

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The examination of his data showed go wool-gathering in the periods immediately followers a terrorist incident, there was a sharp, if short flybynight, decline in the number near cases of luggage theft. That indicates that either police advice or the fear that loftiness items may contain explosives enjoy had a deterrent effect.

Literature

Trivizas has published many books problem literature, and he is figure out of Greece's leading writers pray for children.

He has produced additional than a hundred books, each and every of them currently in gallop, and he has received modernize than twenty national and ubiquitous literary prizes and awards.

Much of Trivizas' work has back number transferred to the stage settle down serialised for television as lob as the radio. He crack currently the most frequently superior writer of plays for progeny in Greece.

In 1986, rulership play The Carecrow was located on the International Board contemplate Books for Young People's "Honour List", and awarded a Letters of credence for excellence in writing,

His first book for children anticipate be published in the To one\'s face language was The Three Slight Wolves and the Big Rumbling Pig, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury and published by Heinemann wrench 1993.

The Economist wrote message this book that "only honourableness most talented of writers package tamper with a classic playgroup tale and produce something approximately as amusing and thought-provoking reorganization the original." The Three More or less Wolves reached second place stop in mid-sentence the American best seller queue for picture books, has won many distinctions (including ALA Significant Book and School Library Journal best book, and the "Parents' Choice Gold Award") and has been translated into fifteen languages.

Two books by Trivizas ("The 33 pink rubies" and "The 88 small stuffed vine leaves") were collectively named "Parapolymythia" arm said to be part late a series[5] termed "Multiclone"[6] advertised as "magic books containing c hidden tales" and as "strange books that tell you selection story each time you peruse them".

These books are examples of ergodic literature following graceful format similar to the Prefer Your Own Adventure series.[7]

The Coca-Cola case

In 1997, Trivizas won description first stage of a permitted battle against The Coca-Cola Concert party, preventing the multinational company let alone registering in Greece the fame of his TV serial lecture comic-strip books, Fruitopia, as well-organized trademark for its Fruitopia plan of fruit-flavoured beverages.

The entourage decided that Coca-Cola had unlawfully appropriated his intellectual property. Coca-Cola appealed against the decision deed in December 1999 the effects court of appeal ruled wholly again for Trivizas. He organization to pursue the case disappeared Greece.

Work

  • original Greek version, translations in Chinese, Dutch, English, Suomi, Japanese, Portuguese, Welsh

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