The primary function of our criminal justice research is to serve as a catalyst for and facilitate
collaborative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on crime, delinquency, and justice
issues. We do so in a variety of methods. Most importantly, we conduct research on crime and
justice issues.
Research conducted at Eric Quarles & Associates, LLC reflects the diversity of interests by our
amazing team and positioning ourselves to become a national leader of excellence at the forefront
of knowledge about the interrelationships among race, ethnicity, crime and justice. Thus, we
undertake significant projects on this topic, and on related issues regarding youth and crime, the
community context of crime, and the consequences of criminal justice policies for different groups.
We also seek to make available and improve data resources for studying crime and justice. Thus, a
number of our projects are devoted to: data base development, addressing data quality problems,
and making data sets more user-friendly.
Our research based Children and Youth Services program is designed to support adolescence
transition to adulthood while making proper decisions. We believe that with the proper leadership,
training, and mentoring, coupled with community support, our learning modules will change the
lives of our youth. The researched based learning modules will focus on the importance of critical
thinking, communication, decision making, and social responsibility with an emphasis on
understanding the criminal justice system.
Race & Diversity helps us develop a sophisticated understanding of race and racism as dynamic concepts, pointing to the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications such as gender, class, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability.
With our Race & Diversity research and development, we intended to teach communities how to:
- Recognize the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications or ascriptions:
gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age;
- Understand the relationships among diversity, justice and power;
- Explore what it means for individuals and institutions to exist in a multi-racial, multicultural
world;
- Investigate the various forms race and racism has taken in different places and times; and
- Discuss race matters with diverse others in relation to personal experience.
The mission of our Gender and Sexuality research is to provide opportunities for all community to
explore, organize, and promote learning around issues of gender and sexuality. We also hope to
facilitate a greater responsiveness to the needs of women and the LGBTQ communities through
education, outreach, and advocacy. The goal of this research is to:
- Understand how social hierarchies related to gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity have
developed historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally.
- Develop a high level of fluency and rigor in understanding how issues of gender and
sexuality shape our lives as individuals and as members of larger communities, both local
and global.
- Gain competence in applying theory to practical experience for social transformation and
citizenship.
- Become critically conversant with theories of gender and sexuality, and their
intersectionality with issues of race and class.
- Draw upon and speak to feminist theory; women’s studies; transnational and third-world
feminisms; womanist theory and the experiences of women of colour; the construction of
masculinity and men’s studies; lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender studies; and
theories of gender as inflected by class, race, religion, and nationality.