More as a role model. New members are inducted each year at the Spring banquet when they receive certificates of membership. Guests of the members are welcome to attend the ceremony. Members also receive the Society ribbon and medallion at the Senior Dinner with the privilege of wearing them to all commencement ceremonies. The Society sponsors a campus wide lecture series that is now in its fourth year and the annual trip to the Federal Investigators Association Symposium in Philadelphia.
Dues is paid only once upon induction.
Every new student is assigned a mentor or shadow for their first semester at Alvernia. The goal of the program is for new students to have an experienced upper-class student who will be available to answer questions about the major, help with some day to day problems, and escort the new student to campus activities, especially the Criminal Justice activities. Although the program is structured to last during the first semester, longer friendships are usually established. As a fundraiser the Criminal Justice Association sponsors the Great Arrest annually on the steps of the Franco Library. Proceeds benefit the association and the Senior Dinner.