Wild Man

Author: Alecia Simmonds
Publisher: Affirm Press
Category: Crime, General
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

In April 2012, on a remote rural property in northern NSW named the School of Happiness, police shot dead Ryan Pringle. Ryan, who was high on a cocktail of drugs and who suffered from mental illness, had been threatening attendees of a hippie festival, known as a rainbow gathering, with a crossbow and hunting knife. When a husband-and-wife police team arrived, they tried to disable him with a taser gun, but ultimately fatal shots were fired.In Wild Man, Alecia Simmonds follows the coronial inquest into this police shooting of Ryan Pringle - the 'Wild Man'. She reveals what really happened that night and unravels the web of issues entangled in the episode: a cultural clash between hippies and rednecks, drug use, mental health and overstretched police services. This spectacular book examines this fascinating, tragic and, at times, bizarre case, and is also a clear-eyed look at some of the most pressing issues in contemporary society.

About Alecia Simmonds
Alecia Simmonds is a regular writer for Fairfax Media's Daily Life and a postdoctoral fellow in law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her columns have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Arena, Womankind, and The Guardian. Wild Man is her first book.

(BK-9781922213686)

SKU BK-9781922213686
Barcode # 9781922213686
Brand Affirm Press
Artist / Author Alecia Simmonds
Shipping Weight 0.4000kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.025m
Shipping Length 0.240m
Assembled Length 24.000m
Assembled Height 14.000m
Assembled Width 2.500m
Type Paperback

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