Narratives have returned as an important resource for understanding how prisoners make sense of their lives. However, as a number of scholars have pointed out, these narratives do not emerge sui genersis; they are drawn from social constructs and cultural genres available to individuals. Using data gathered from a Life History Calendar and a modification of Canter and Youngs ( 2015 Canter, D. , & Youngs, D . (2015). The LAAF Procedure for exploring offenders’ narratives. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(3), 219–236. doi: 10.1111/hojo.12124 [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] ) Life as a Film, we investigate whether the multiple locations individuals occupy (based on their race and gender) influence their narrative accounts and the contribution of both social structure and agency to these accounts. Our analyses of the narratives of 95 male and female persistent offenders’ (of whom 30 are Black and 65 are White) reveal the structural disadvantages, and advantages, they had experienced as well as the narrative tropes they deemed to be culturally relevant given their race and gender.

Behavior analysis of social insects requires robust tracking over many frames. Automated tracking methods are not reliable for tracking over long video. And they are prone to a quick accumulation of error from one mis-tracking. However, searching and correcting of mis-tracking is time-consuming. In this paper, we present an efficient method for achieving robust tracking of multiple ants over a long video. First, our method minimizes the user wait time by speeding up tracking with a GPU. Second, it minimizes the amount of data the user needs to validate by automatically searching for potential errors and presenting them for user validation and correction. User studies with three participants on a 10,000 frame video demonstrates that (1) the speed of tracking is 16x faster with GPU optimization, (2) tracking accuracy was 96%, which is a 25% improvement over no user interaction, (3) users examined less than 0.6% of frames for validation and correction.

The current study seeks to extend routine activity theory by examining how gender conditions the relationship between leisure activities and adolescent delinquency. Using OLS regression with a sample of high school students from Toronto (n = 2,209), we find that (1) engaging in more unstructured and unsupervised activities with peers is associated with delinquency more strongly for boys than for girls, but is associated with substance use equally across gender; (2) this pattern is likely due to gender differences in the locations or contexts of leisure activities; and (3) prosocial leisure activities are associated with less delinquency only for boys. In general, routine activity theory appears apt at explaining the substance use of boys and girls, but is less capable of explaining the property and violent offending of girls. We discuss our findings and their implications for the growing body of research extending routine activity theory to explain gender differences in delinquency.