Evaluation of the Level of Satisfaction of Undergraduate Law Students with the Criminology Course Program

Abstract

One of the subjects of the Bachelor's Degree in Law is criminology, a multidisciplinary science dedicated to the study of crime, its causes and consequences, making it especially useful and necessary in the field of law since it provides valuable and relevant information to the judicial system. The objective of this article is to evaluate the level of satisfaction of two groups of 4th year students of the Bachelor's Degree in Law with the Criminology Program taught in the 2022-2023 academic year at a University Headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior.  For this purpose, a mixed cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out with the use of statistical methods and the Iadov Technique was used for the study of satisfaction with the profession in pedagogical careers.  This technique constitutes an indirect way to study individual and group satisfaction on various topics, through the evaluation of the criteria established between three closed questions that are interspersed within a questionnaire and whose relationship is unknown to the respondents. As fundamental results it was established that: 1º. The General Satisfaction Index (ISG) with the program given to them was high (0.730) and also in the two groups of participating students, although differences were observed in favor of the first (ISG1=0.791) versus the second (ISG2=0.673); 2º. The Individual Satisfaction Index (ISI) is also high as 62% expressed feeling "very satisfied" and 30% "more satisfied than dissatisfied".