[1][2] For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, Trivizas was a finalist for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.

[4] He is currently teaching a course on crime and society and he has been awarded the titles of director of criminal justice studies and senior research fellow.

Trivizas was one of the first academics to complete a systematic study of crowd disorders in England and their implications for the British system of criminal justice.

This involved studying the problems deriving from football crowds, political demonstrations and pop festivals in the Metropolitan Police Area.

He has also published extensively on many aspects of criminology, the sociology of deviance, the human rights implications of the electronic monitoring of offenders, and has written about censorship on a comparative basis.

His last study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, deals with one of the most controversial issues in modern criminal justice policy, that of general deterrence.

The underlying assumption of general deterrence theory and associated policy, is that individuals calculate the risk involved and refrain from criminal activity because of the fear of punishment.

The analysis of his data showed that in the periods immediately following a terrorist incident, there was a sharp, if short lived, decline in the number of cases of luggage theft.

In 1986, his play The Carecrow was placed on the International Board on Books for Young People's "Honour List", and awarded a Diploma for excellence in writing, His first book for children to be published in the English language was The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury and published by Heinemann in 1993.

The Economist wrote about this book that "only the most talented of writers can tamper with a classic nursery tale and produce something almost as amusing and thought-provoking as the original."