May 31, 2015

Q.1704

Anti-slavery commissioner in Britain reported in May 2015 that adults are using children to shoplift and pickpocket.
Kevin Hyland said
Youngsters are being roped into criminal activities and there were over 151 convictions regarding the same.
He has compared this scenario to a similar one in an Epic Charles Dickens novel.

The book describes the life of an orphan who is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. Later he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.

Which novel was he talking about?

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