Under Lock and Key—A Study of Women in Prison

By Xenia Field. (Max Parrish, 30s.) Mrs. Field has set herself a difficult task in attempting to describe, in a comparative. short book, the various penal institutions for women in England, their administr tion, staffing, and, hardest of all, their inmates, whose personalities and offences ^ also discussed. Her object in writing it is to plead that women, or all but a stfj minority, should be kept out of prison at all costs?and "to emphasise the pif ,< drabness and social inadequacy, rather than the criminality, of the vast majorM She points out that few women commit crimes of violence, and they are, theref0