To define the term violence in adolescent relationships, foreign authors often use the term teen dating violence, and it is defined as physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence whose goal is to gain power and maintain control over another person in the relationship. There are various forms of violence in youth relationships such as physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence and stalking. Numerous studies try to predict such violent behaviors using certain risk factors. In the last few years there has been an increase in violence in adolescent relationships amd the need to understand the causes of this problem. Various theories help us to understand the causes of violence, the dominant ones being feminist theory, social learning theory, social relations and social control theory, attachment theory and background situational model. The importance of raising awareness among young people and society about this problem lies in the many negative consequences that violent behavior in a relationship produces, and in order to prevent such behavior it is important to work on developing prevention programs and educating young people. Implemented prevention programs have produced positive effects and influenced the reduction of violent behavior in relationships, it is important to learn from such programs and create new ones by adapting them to the population to which they want to apply.