What we put in prison and in preventive and rescue homes.

London: Williams and Norgate. 1932.

First edition. 8vo. 185x124mm. pp. 159 [1bl]. Publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Slight shelfwear and bumping to corners and head and foot of spine which is a little cocked. Otherwise in very good condition throughout.
Grace Pailthorpe is probably best remembered as a surrealist painter but her day job was as a doctor and criminal psychologist working first at Birmingham prison then at Holloway Women's Prison. What we put in prison represents the fruit of the research carried out there and is an argument for "the necessity for psychological treatment of the so-called criminal and asocial individual". In the same year as this book was published, she also founded the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency out of which branched the Portman Clinic where Pailthorpe carried out ground-breaking work in art therapy.