Dr. Starks is also an Associate Director of the Delaware Space Grant Consortium. He completed a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Delaware. His current research draws from the law and society tradition and is grounded in a concern for social justice. He focuses broadly on law and inequality and more specifically, uses courtroom and community ethnography to examine the relationship between law, race/ethnicity, crime and (in)justice. In 1999, Dr. Starks opened B. Chad Bonding Company as a licensed bail bondsman. In 2001, Dr. Starks joined the faculty of Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina as a full-time instructor in the Criminal Justice Department. In 2005, after more than six years in business, Dr. Starks closed B. Chad Bonding and left Benedict College to return to academia to pursue a Ph.D.