2.10 Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice Key Terms

• Crisis of legitimacy

  A situation where people start to question the government's right to govern
• Inter-class truce


  A situation where class conflict is limited because both sides are prepared to make concessions
• Anti-colonial struggles against British imperialism

  The resistance to the colonial rule of one country by another, in this case, the British Empire. Many post-WW2 immigrants to Britain came from countries such as those in southern Asia and the Caribbean that had once been colonies of the British Empire.