Nafeesa Huskey
Deviant Behavior
When I was younger I had a particular friend that was my best friend, she was fun energetic and risky. She would do things for the thrill of it, even after being told she wasn’t allowed to by her parents. Her parents were hardly ever around they showed her very little attention. Her father was constantly in and out of jail and her mother could never keep a job. As Henslin (2015) states, “In short, families that are involved in crime tend to set their children on a lawbreaking path of norms. (pg. 160)” We grew up together and we were very close, we attended the same high school. One day after school let out she pulled out a cigarette and began to light it. She never was a fan of smoking because she hated that …show more content…
Due to all of the peer pressure that occured I went to this particular party with my friend and her other group of friends from the school. I didn’t want to do it but we all felt we could have some fun and get away with it. Now that I’m more mature, I know that I shouldn’t have done and it. At the highschool party we attended there were many drinks, my best friend and I had a few of them. We convinced ourselves we weren’t even that drunk and decided to leave the party and head home. Our designated driver of the night was my best friend, afterall she was the only one with a car at our age, and she had convinced everyone she was ok. She began driving and headed down a familiar road. She forgot about the bend in the road and the stop sign at the intersection of another highway. She looked down to turn the music up and by the time she looked back up we went into the ditch. We flipped over the intersecting highway and rolled until the vehicle stopped 100 plus yards later feet from a building. I was fine after the crash but my best friend who wasn't wearing her seatbelt had spent the next 30 days in a coma on life support, luckily she survived. It took her a long time to regain her motor skills. Her short term memory is still affected. Being that she was age of 16, she was going to the juvenile courts. In the juvenile courts, they were more
Deviant Behavior
When I was younger I had a particular friend that was my best friend, she was fun energetic and risky. She would do things for the thrill of it, even after being told she wasn’t allowed to by her parents. Her parents were hardly ever around they showed her very little attention. Her father was constantly in and out of jail and her mother could never keep a job. As Henslin (2015) states, “In short, families that are involved in crime tend to set their children on a lawbreaking path of norms. (pg. 160)” We grew up together and we were very close, we attended the same high school. One day after school let out she pulled out a cigarette and began to light it. She never was a fan of smoking because she hated that …show more content…
Due to all of the peer pressure that occured I went to this particular party with my friend and her other group of friends from the school. I didn’t want to do it but we all felt we could have some fun and get away with it. Now that I’m more mature, I know that I shouldn’t have done and it. At the highschool party we attended there were many drinks, my best friend and I had a few of them. We convinced ourselves we weren’t even that drunk and decided to leave the party and head home. Our designated driver of the night was my best friend, afterall she was the only one with a car at our age, and she had convinced everyone she was ok. She began driving and headed down a familiar road. She forgot about the bend in the road and the stop sign at the intersection of another highway. She looked down to turn the music up and by the time she looked back up we went into the ditch. We flipped over the intersecting highway and rolled until the vehicle stopped 100 plus yards later feet from a building. I was fine after the crash but my best friend who wasn't wearing her seatbelt had spent the next 30 days in a coma on life support, luckily she survived. It took her a long time to regain her motor skills. Her short term memory is still affected. Being that she was age of 16, she was going to the juvenile courts. In the juvenile courts, they were more