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24 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (1995-1996)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc24 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime, Law & Social Change 24: 1-18, 1995. 1 0 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Immigration and the emergence of right-wing violence in unified Germany DANIEL MAIER-KATKIN', SUSANNE STEMMLER2 & PAUL STRETESKY 1School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, USA; 2 Erlangen, Germany The articles that make up this special issue were all derived from presentations at a conference that took place at the Pennsylvania State University in the Fall of 1993. This paper presents an overview of the themes and issues discussed at that conference. While the conference was broadly international, co-sponsored by Penn State University and the Max-Planck-Institut and supported financially by the DAAD, the articles included in this special issue focus principally on the nature and amount of hate crimes and xenophobia in Germany. This article describes the international and comparative nature of the conference and explains the decision to focus on the German situation. Prologue A conference titled No Justice .. . No Peace?: Ethnicity, Culture Conflict, Crime and the Administration of Justice in Germany and America was held at the Pennsylvania State University between September 16 and 18, 1993.1 The central themes were crime, urban unrest, race-relations and hostility to outsiders - problems that persist in American and German societies. The conference brought together scholars, professionals and activists from both countries.2 Why discuss Germany and America together at a conference focused on crime, immigration, anti-outsider sentiment, and racial violence? After all, a point made clear at the conference is that so much of the relevant data is non- comparable; furthermore, the social, cultural, historical and demographic realities are so disparate. If on the one hand, it can be claimed that the discussion involved apples and oranges, it should be noted that from an only slightly removed perspective apples and oranges are remarkably similar.3 The histories of both countries include a persistent theme of fear and intolerance directed at outsiders (Auslander). If the Nazi death camps and strategy of total war come first to mind, slavery and the genocide of Native Americans ought not to be forgotten. If it can be argued that there is an element of right-wing intolerance and violence embedded in German culture

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