Criminology: A Review Of True Notebooks

Things were far from perfect, but my best memories in life are with him. I moved in with him right at the age of eighteen, and that is when he had finally wanted to become responsible and independent. It was the start of a new beginning, we were growing up into adults together. By that time, we had both been off probation and had stopped getting into trouble; there was no more car chasing or neither of us getting into street fights. We would take random trips to San Francisco, to Bodega Bay’s beach, and we were always having picnics. The reason why I read the book, True Notebooks again was because, I was studying the personality of the character in it named Kevin; he and Rene relate to each other. To make a long story short, Rene got shot and killed on Valentine’s Day of …show more content…
I had given up on him because, I got tired of waiting for him to change back to the man I had fallen in love with. Once he started hanging around a gang located here in Santa Rosa called, Varrio Sureno Lokotes, he had slowly started changing. He had never been aggressive when it came to me, but then he started becoming jealous and violent. So, I completely agree with the statement that the book, Criminology: A Brief Introduction had talked about the topic of relationships with peers; when you hang out a certain group or person, you will slowly change for better or worse. I believe that Rene was just at the phase that he thought that his friends meant a lot more to him, than anyone else. When it came to the trail of his killer, none of his “friends” were willing to testify on behalf of Rene, nor did any of them offer money to his parents for the funeral expenses. I looked at the world a lot more different today; it has been almost two years without him, and I still choose to live with his parents. I had made a promise to him that if anything were to happen to him to look after his little brother, like my very