Changing Policing Theories is a thoroughly revised third edition of this comparative study of the practice of policing in Australia, Britain and the United States of America.

The book covers: * the impact on policing of constitutional and cultural difference; * society and crime in the 21st century - crime and disorder on the streets, - problems involved in street policing, - the effect of new technology, for example CCTV, and - the pervasive involvement of drugs and alcohol in crime; * police accountability - the accountability of police organisations to the government, - the accountability of senior officers to the public, and - the accountability of individual police officers to the persons with whom they come into contact; * the changing relationship between police and the state - policing terrorism, and - internet crime.