Despite the notable expansion in research on mass incarceration and reentry, we know relatively little about how women who have spent a good portion of their lives enmeshed in the criminal justice system view these experiences and how these experiences might shape their imagined future lives. We address this gap by examining the narratives of 16 black and 35 white persistent offenders imprisoned in Pennsylvania. Our findings suggest that black women report more negative criminal justice experiences than white women and that, regardless of the nature of these encounters, white women tend to have more optimist outlooks for their futures. This suggests that the racialization of structural advantages and disadvantages may compound the women’s salient criminal justice encounters. The implication of these findings for procedural justice, reentry and desistance research are discussed.

尽管有关大规模监禁和再入狱的研究显着扩展，但我们对在刑事司法系统中度过了大部分生命的妇女如何看待这些经历以及这些经历如何影响她们想象中的未来生活知之甚少。我们通过检查在宾夕法尼亚州囚禁的16名黑人和35名白人持久犯罪者的叙述来解决这一差距。我们的发现表明，黑人妇女报告的刑事司法经验要比白人妇女更多，并且不管这些遭遇的性质如何，白人妇女对自己的未来往往抱有更乐观的看法。这表明种族优势和劣势的种族化可能加剧妇女在刑事司法中的重大遭遇。这些调查结果对程序正义的意义，