ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the government policy concerning foreign youthful offenders in the 1990s and the work of the official academic criminologists. It offers a critique of these criminologists who had become an interest group strengthening and legitimizing government policy concerning foreigners in the changing political climate in Germany at the close of this century while posing as progressive liberals. Foreigners are subject to studies and political action as a problematic group concerning their own criminal behavior. The culture-conflict approach was recently illustrated at a conference of the police trade union in Baden-Württemberg where Pfeiffer claimed that one of the major problems and causes of crime amongst foreigners and ethnic-Germans is not being able to speak the German language. The case of Mehmet is one example of moral panics concerning 'foreigners' as a problem group in the German society, especially connecting them with criminality. The crime rate of foreigners is calculated in relation to the foreign population of Germany.
