Kyle Treiber is Associate Professor of Neurocriminology at the University of Cambridge, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for Analytic Criminology and its multilevel, longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent of Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). She has been responsible for developing the neurocognitive and biopsychological dimensions of PADS+ as well as its guiding theoretical framework, Situational Action Theory (SAT). Due to the nature of PADS+ as a multi-method study of people, social environments and their interaction, Dr Treiber has experience in developmental and social ecological research methods and analytical techniques, and is particularly interested in situating neuropsychological factors in a wider behavioural context. This extends into the domain of cross-comparative research and tests of SAT around the world.

Dr Treiber is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Criminology and thereby a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology. She is also General Editor of Oxford University Press’s series Clarendon Studies in Criminology.

Dr Treiber has a background in psychology with a focus on neuroscience, and criminology with a focus on situational analysis. Her research and teaching bring these two fields together into an integrative analytic approach to explaining criminal behaviour as an outcome of the interplay between social and individual (including biological) factors. She is particularly interested in action decision making and the role experiential content, neurocognitive machinery, and the coordination of cognitive/rational/deliberate and affective/intuitive/habitual capacities play in the development of crime propensities and their expression in criminal behaviour.