Perception of violence in love relationships of students of a Faculty of Law and Criminology at a University of Northern Mexico

Abstract

This article presents the results of the research in which an analysis is made of the students' perception of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of a University in northern Mexico, about violence in love relationships. For this, a questionnaire was applied that is composed of 10 items of closed answers, which evaluates the prevalence, perception and violence in the courtship of 280 university students of different semesters. The general results found were the level of prevalence, perception and existence of violence were low even though there is about 20% of these 3 elements that show signs of the existence of violent behavior. It can be concluded that the educational level is an element that helps to improve the violent ways of relating, also transforms the mentally established mental schemes, promoting healthy relationships, evidenced in low prevalence, perception and existence of violent behaviors in love relationships.