Marx Vs Durkheim

This essay will look at violence both in general and against women through theories by Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. The article being looked at is “Hidden rise in violent crime driven by growth in violence against women” (Gayle 2016, n.p), the article brings attention to crimes against women being on the rise, both reported and unreported. The article also claims that the rise begins at the start of a financial crisis in the UK. This essay will look at the causes and control of crime in the exploitation, injustice, and class conflict in capitalist society. It will draw on and differentiate relationships between social structure and the organization of law and punishment and investigate the social causes of crime, and social deviance.
Emile Durkheim bases his theories of class, race and gender based on consensus and
Marx categorizes : 120). Karl Marx sees crime and deviance as defined by the ruling class and used as a means of social control ). The Social order therefore has a defect rather than deriving from moral or biological faults, this failure causes the proletarians to commit acts of deviance in an effort and form of expression against the bourgeoisie. Crime is consequently an unavoidable part of capitalism and a response to the life conditions of a person’s social class. Similarly, men and women in society can be compared to the relations between the proletariat and bourgeoisie. Women's subservience is a function of class oppression, because it serves the benefits of the ruling class; it divides both sexes and freedoms are given to the working class men within the capitalist structure in order to heighten and protect their support; therefore ensures the capitalist class's ignorance towards women. With this comes a great extent of conflict between the sexes, escalating further into a wide range of