Eugene Trivizas

Eugene Trivizas is a Greek criminologist, born in 1946, known for pioneering empirical research into crowd disorder in England, studying crowd participants, their interaction with police, and how courts treated them across contexts including football crowds, political demonstrations and pop festivals. He also published influential research on general deterrence theory, examining how publicized terrorist incidents affected theft patterns at railway stations. Trivizas is also a prolific writer of children's books and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.