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专题限时检测 十七 　阅读理解之社会现象类 共3篇，限时23分钟 A 2014·湖北八校第二次联考 A white child sold a pack of cannabis 大麻 at his local high school. A black child did a part-time job like this in his local neighborhood. When caught, both of them were first-time violators 违反者 . And then the white child walked into juvenile 青少年的 court with his family, an excellent lawyer and insurance. The black child walked into court with his dad, no lawyer and no insurance. The grand justice let the white child leave with his family. Besides, he was placed in a well-condition treatment program. The black child had no choice. He was under restraint 限制 ． Generally speaking, what we have mentioned above happened more and more often in the juvenile-court system. Minority youths who were caught on violent affairs were more than 5 times as white youths to be sent out of the juvenile justice system and tried 审判 as adults, according to a study released last week by The New York Times. Once minority children were in adult courts, young black violators were 20 times more likely to be put into prison. “Discrimination against minority children develops at every stage of the justice system and it is going to skyrocket when young criminals are judged as adult criminals，” said Mr.Din. Low age crime dropped from its peak in the early 2000s. In the past six years, 33 states have passed new laws that made it easier to try juveniles as adults. In New York and Mississippi in 1996, all the young criminals in prison were minorities. In fact, most of the children who were tried as adults should not be treated like that. Instead, adult prisons were a hell to juveniles. Adult prisoners were 10 times more likely to commit killing people and 7 times more likely to be about sexual abuse. Jim King Cary, a spokesman, a reform group in Washington D. C．， said once they got out, they were going to commit more and more violent crimes. The system, in fact, was training career criminals. And it was doing its great harm to minorities.