016590000a22001690004500001000700000100004100007101000800048200013300056210000900189330109400198461007101292606002101363606002401384606003901408700002001447701002201467340660  a20220318              pory50          aeng  aThe europeanization of human rights : an obstacle to authoritarian policing in Ireland?fBarry Vaughan, co-aut. Shane Kilcommins  d2007  aThere is a widespread conviction that contemporary criminal justice developments can best be analysed in terms of their capacity to reassure an anxious public rather than to reduce crime in any straightforward way. Construing curent changes as primarily driven by efforts to placate public insecurity dowplays several crucial factors of contemporary political rule. States, especially those within Europe, are increasingly integrated around human rights values that circumscribe their actions. These norms provide a resource for national citizens to make claims against states for interests that have been downgraded. This article analyses how this process of the Europeanization of human rights, coupled with crucial domestic factors, has tempered the shift toward a repressive model of criminal justice by introducing greater regulation and oversight of policing by the Irish state. This may presage a splintering of state sovereignty as some of its organizations are inspired by adherence to transnational values, an allegiance that may impede any move towards authoritarian state rule.  tEuropean Journal of Criminology. - Vol.4,nº4 (oct.2007),p.437-460  aGLOBALIZAÇÃO  aAUTORIDADE POLICIAL  aSEGURANÇA INTERNACIONALyIRLANDA  aVAaughan, Barry  aKilcommins, Shane