Breanna Wood Vs. Joseph Matthew Tejeda Summary

The Case of Breanna Wood vs. Joseph Matthew Tejeda Breanna Woods was reported missing by her mother on October 18 of 2016. Wood’s was last seen with Joseph Matthew Tejeda at a PMI market at the intersection of Tancahua Street and Hancock Avenue, according to Corpus Christi police. Her mother last heard from the 21-year-old about 10 p.m. that night when the two texted. Woods told her mom she was headed home. On January 2, 2017, her body was found in Flour Buff, Corpus Christi. On January 4th, while in police custody in another inmate reached out to police and said Tejeda, with whom he shared a cell, confessed to killing Breanna. The inmate told police Tejeda said he shot Wood in the back of the head at his apartment across from the PMI, according

Because of the nature of the crime and story, itself it has been ruled a homicide (willful killing of one human being by another). The one criminological theory I thought most that would fit this story would be, rational choice theory. This theory rules out such factors as biological, psychological or environmental factors that might compel someone to commit a crime. Instead, it asserts that criminals make a choice to commit a crime after weighing the costs. They also will consider the benefit of not committing the crime, but ultimately determine that the rewards of the crime are greater than the benefit of not committing the crime. In this case the murder itself seems to be rewarding for

There are different beliefs within the strain theory, but as stated before, strain theory was developed around the belief that deviant behavior arises as a response to a problem that the individual cannot fix. The original strain theory was started by Robert Merton. He too believed that deviance occurred as a way to solve a problem. He believed this happened when the individual conflicted with societal values. In response to the cause of alcoholism, according to Merton one becomes an alcoholic when they choose to reject society’s goals and approved way of achieving these goals. These people choose to reject it because they lacked the ability to live up to society’s standards. This can be seen when reviewing Kohl and Wall’s article Substance Use in Maltreated Youth: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. This article argues that children who have conduct problems at school are more likely to use alcohol, which at that age is the stepping stone for alcoholism later in life. “Conduct problems and low caregiver relatedness were more prevalent for youth reporting higher levels of substance use. High levels of conduct problems increased the odds of substance use, whereas high caregiver monitoring decreased the odds of substance use.” ( Wall and Kohl, 2007).This shows Merton’s double reject concept. The