RT Article T1 Immigration and the emergence of right-wing violence in unified Germany JF Crime, law and social change VO 24 IS 1 SP 1 OP 18 A1 Maier-Katkin, Daniel 1945- A2 Stemmler, Susanne A2 Stretesky, Paul B. 1967- LA English YR 1995 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883867029 AB 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. K1 Comparative Nature K1 German Situation K1 Hate Crime K1 International Relation K1 Issue Focus DO 10.1007/BF01297654