The document summarizes how Charles Dickens portrayed the criminal justice system in his novel Oliver Twist. It discusses how the novel focused on issues of child labor and cruel treatment of orphans. It describes key characters like Oliver Twist, Fagin, and the Artful Dodger. It also summarizes how the novel showed bias and injustice in the legal system of Victorian London and critiqued the concept of retributive justice. The criminal justice system is portrayed through Oliver's experience in the workhouse and later being sold into slavery.

1. TOPIC: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
PRESENTED IN OLIVER TWIST
Name: Jinal B. Parmar
Roll No.: 13
Paper No.: 6 The Victorian Age
M.A. Sem.: 2
Year: 2013-2014
Submitted to: Department of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

3. CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS
• English writer and
social critic
• Greatest novelist of the
Victorian period
• He wrote about poverty
and hardship
• His work:
• Pickwick Papers
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Oliver Twist
• Focus on Social
Criticism

4.  Subtitled is “The Parish Boy‟s
Progress”
 A social Novel
 Story of a orphan child „Oliver
Twist‟
 Story reflects the issues of child
labour and cruel treatment to the
orphans
 The novel has inspired by the
story of Robert Blincoe
 Dickens has reflacted issue of
child labour through the character of
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist :

5. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE NOVEL
“Criminal justice system deals with the
crime problem in which this novel deals
with the problem of child labour and
other crime like child Pick pocket”

6. Child
labor
Poor
Law
Poverty
Dickens has represent the the Victorian London of
1830s and crime through out this this novel

7. Two main characters
Oliver Twist
Fagin

8. Oliver Twist meets
the Artful Dodger
The Artful Dodger
introduces Oliver to
Fagin

9. The Victorian
House in the of
the 19th century
Victorian
Chimney
Sweep

10. A Famous scene from this novel when Mr. Bumble sells
the young orphan (Oliver) in to labor
VIDEO

11. The criminological themes
appear early in “Oliver
Twist.” Upon hearing of Oliver‟s
bold request for more food, a
member of the workhouse
board solemnly predicts, “That
boy will be hung. I know that
boy will be hung.” Dickens
thus raises the question of
whether there are “born
criminals”–individuals with more
or less innate tendencies to
commit crime that can become
evident even at a young age
One of the quote that “Please sir I want some more” spoken by Oliver

12.  The legal system portrayed in Oliver
Twist, however, is heavily biased in
favor of middle-class and upper-class
individuals
 Dickens shows many types of justice
and injustice, in the novel
 Both recognized and hidden by society,
and portrays the criminal justice system
through the moral authority of the
English court system and the higher
spiritual authority of God.
 Dickens takes a stand against
retributive justice. Retributive justice is
a practice of administering justice
through punishments that are
proportionate to or fitting of the crime
 These are just some of the examples
of criminal justice in Oliver Twist

13.  This novel has reflcted the society
of London of Dickens time
 Dickens used the story of “Oliver
Twist” to draw to attention to many
social ill that rife in Victorian London
 In the time of Dickens and his
character, Oliver Twist, poor people
lived in dread of the workhouse
 Many children from the workhouse -
especially those such as Oliver
Twist who had been orphaned -
were sold out as child slaves
 It is hard to believe that this used to
happen in London. In some parts of
the world it still happens today.

14. Thank you…