Dr. Kyle Trieber - Biography

	Contact Details
	Room: 3.3
	Tel: +44 (0)1223 762947
	Email: kht25@cam.ac.uk pads@hermes.cam.ac.uk
	www.pads.ac.uk

Research Associate (PADS+)

NC School of Science & Mathematics, 1997
BS (Neuroscience + Technical Writing), University of NC at Chapel Hill, 2001
M.Phil. (Criminology), University of Cambridge, 2003
Ph.D. (Criminology), University of Cambridge, 2008

Kyle Treiber is a Research Associate and occasional lecturer who works particularly with the neurocognitive and biopsychological dimensions of the Peterborough Adolescent of Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). She has been responsible for acquiring and developing the many psychometric measures used by PADS+ and completed her dissertation, Executive Capabilities and Crime, using PADS+ data on young people’s executive and emotive control.

Dr Treiber graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 1997 and earned her BS in Psychology and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. She moved to Cambridge in 2002 to undertake her MPhil in Criminology, where she finished top of her class and was awarded the Lopez-Rey Graduate Prize for her dissertation, Sociobiology and Crime. She went on to complete her PhD, Executive Capabilities and Crime, in 2008, for which she was awarded the 2008 Nigel Walker Prize.
Her research interests include evolutionary psychology and behaviourism, the biology of morality and self-control, and the interaction between individuals and environments. For more on PADS+, see www.pads.ac.uk. For more on the genesis of PADS+ via the ESRC Priority Network for the Study of Social Contexts in Crime (SCoPiC), see www.scopic.ac.uk.

Selected Publications

• Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. (2007). The role of self-control in crime causation: Beyond Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime. European Journal of Criminology, 4(2), 237-264.
• Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. (2009). What drives persistent offending? The neglected and unexplored role of the social environment. In J. Savage (Ed), The development of persistent criminality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 389-422.
• Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. 2009. Violence as situational action. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 3(1), 75-96.
• Wikström, P-O H.,, Ceccato, V., Hardie, B. & Treiber, K., 2010. Activity fields and the dynamics of crime. Advancing knowledge about the role of the environment in crime causation. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 26(1), pp.55-87.