Hoeben, Bernasco and Pauwels discuss the space-time budget method.
The Space-Time Budget method developed by Wikström is, in fact, largely based on the time diary method.
We will discuss the decisions regarding the development of the Space-Time Budget method in the subsequent sections.
To illustrate the relevance of Space-Time Budget method (STB) for criminological research, we discuss two case studies.
For more information on time diaries in general (not the Space-Time Budget method particularly), see Belli et al. ([2009]) for a recent and thorough discussion.
This article reviews the Space-Time Budget method developed by Wikström and colleagues and particularly discusses its relevance for criminological research.
Since the present paper is specifically focused on the application of the Space-Time Budget method for criminological research, we will first briefly discuss these projects before reviewing the instrument developed by P-O.
Furthermore, the space-time budget method offers the possibility of collecting information on spatial location, which enables the study of a respondent's whereabouts, going beyond the traditional focus of ecological criminological studies on residential neighborhoods.
The Space-Time Budget method is a data collection instrument aimed at recording, retrospectively, on an hour-by-hour basis, the whereabouts and activities of respondents during four days in the week before the interview.
The Space-Time Budget method is also potentially useful for social disorganization theory (Sampson [2012]), as it allows researchers to replace proxy measures of exposure (e.g., neighborhood of residence) with detailed actual measures of exposure to various environments, including neighborhoods.
More recently, Andreoni and Sprenger (2012) extended the methodology proposed by Andersen et al. (2008) by developing a procedure they called the Convex Time Budget (CTB) method that does not require a separate risk aversion task to identify the curvature of the utility function.
