Trend in family violence research

Because of the need to diagnose and organize the research on family violence produced by members of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the University of Zulia (LUZ-FCJP), an rationalist-deductionist approach was conducted. The studies are contrasted with research problems facing the area of family violence, expressed by Traverso (2000) and Barnet et al (1997) Rod (2006) and Castro Riquer (2003), and describes the characteristics of researches procedures and contributions based on the research process structures: synchronic and diachronic, according to Model of Variability in Educational Research (Padron, 2001). To achieve this goal we collected all the investigation products, discussed their epistemological aspects, and recorded it on a checklist (Paz, 2008). Among the most highlight results is that the researches were carried out as academic requirement of a degree, with a predominance of the School of Social Work. There was no evidence of the presence of a line of research that addresses such productions. The knowledge produced is basically descriptive, allowing the contextualization of the problem, but there is a lack of contrasting theoretical or explanatory proposed intervention. A research based on victims predominates and the mix of types of violence, although the definitions are guided by national legal instruments. The importance of this work lies in identifying the characteristics of university research and their contribution, in terms of knowledge production, to one of the Venezuelan social problems.