Introduction Race and ethnicity have remained among the most integral discussions in American society since time immemorial. While these concepts depict a correlation between minority groups and the poignant salient aspect of racial conflicts, the penal code is at the forefront of the disproportionate promotion of inequalities in crime prevention. Furthermore, unfair treatment has become synonymous with the minority groups who see themselves as misjudged by a supposedly impartial criminal justice system. Besides, Walker et al. (2018) expound on how correctional programs, victimization, and unconscious bias by the police have become commonplace among the racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. This paper explores structure in society, income inequality, and wealth concerning race and ethnicity. Also, it proposes ways of addressing these issues in place of crime prevention. Social Structure, Income Inequality, and Wealth Distribution Although social structure entails unalterable collective circumstances of individuals, it forms a basis from which issues facing various groups of people are tackled. Also, it is a concept with unreal objectivity whose meaning depends on personal thoughts on the classification of race. In unraveling the mystery of defining race, García (2020) argues that it is an emotional topic that encompasses a variety of emotions such as discomfort, anger, fear, defensiveness, and insecurity (p. 205). Further, he asserts that physical appearance, especially in America, is socially constructed as it forms the basis for one’s origin. Therefore, groups of people define themselves or have specific labels assigned to them by others. Also, he sees race as a category of people whose biological traits are considered important based on shared traits and common ancestry (García, 2020). Besides, ethnicity is portrayed through people’s differences resulting from cultural customs such as religion, language, traditions, and food that are learned. Similarly, it refers to the attachment of a person to a specific group based on their ancestral origin. While family, law, religion, class, and economy are the main characteristics of a social structure at the micro-level, stratification of class, institutions, and patterned relations among large groups forms the macro phase. As a result, research has shown that race and origin determine the economic status of an individual, and minority groups are segregated based on the aforementioned factors (American Psychological Association, 2017). Therefore, ethnicity forms the basis of a grouping and is linked to the inherent pre-determined conditions for specific people. Also, at the community level, social echelons involve the distribution of people within the local neighborhoods, the composition, and the pattern of their interactions (Walker et al., 2018). Therefore, it shows the interlink between these concepts, and as such, it forms the basis for understanding group dynamics and their formations. Income inequality is the gap between the rich and the poor in terms of money earned or revenue. This is the disparity of earnings distribution among groups, individuals, social classes, populations, or countries (Amadeo, 2021). Some of the sources include investment earnings, real estate sales, wages, and rent. By 2015 in the U.S., 1% of Americans controlled more than 50% of the country’s wealth, while ten percent of the richest accounted for 88% of all wealth as the bottom 50% of Americans controlled