About this Event
Date/Time: Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at 4:00 pm MST / 6:00 pm EST
Event Format: Hybrid (In-Person + Online via Zoom)
In-Person Location:
Academic Complex 1, Room 104 (Prescott Campus)
Online via Zoom:
All talks will be streamed live via Zoom.
https://erau.zoom.us/j/91029258851?pwd=JiEGkZ4xqaA1kZIidtoyEwcqCHRKEP.1
Meeting ID: 910 2925 8851 Password: 904838
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University faculty from the Worldwide and Prescott campuses come together on the Prescott campus (and virtually via Zoom) to discuss careers in criminal justice, best practices in their fields, and pathways to student success.
This session will explore opportunities in:
- Law enforcement
- Courts and legal systems
- Cybersecurity
- Crime prevention
- Criminal justice research
The session will also be the launch event for our new Criminal Justice Minor, shared between the Prescott and Worldwide campuses!
Hosted by:
Worldwide Campus | College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Emergency, Disaster and Global Security Studies
Speakers:
Jakari Young, M.S. - Chief of Police, Daytona Beach Police Department and Adjunct Faculty, Worldwide Campus | College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Emergency, Disaster and Global Security Studies
Michele W. Gazica, J.D., Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Chair, and Program Coordinator (Prescott Campus)
Mathew Heath Van Horn, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor (Prescott Campus)
Steven R. Hooper – Assistant Professor (Prescott Campus)
Explore the Criminal Justice Minor
Explore criminal justice through an interdisciplinary lens connecting crime, law, investigations, human behavior, security, and the distinctive environments of aviation and aerospace. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide’s Criminal Justice minor offers two pathways, allowing students to pursue either an Aerospace Specialization or a flexible Focus Area tailored to their academic and professional interests.
Choose Your Path
Aerospace Specialization
Connect criminal justice principles directly to aviation and aerospace. Students build foundations in criminality and the legal system before studying aviation and aerospace law and selecting applied coursework in areas such as:
- Airborne law enforcement
- Aircraft accident investigation
- Aviation security
- Countering human trafficking
The specialization is designed for students interested in careers where criminal justice, law enforcement, security, investigations, and aviation or aerospace intersect.
Criminal Justice Focus Area
Build a broader interdisciplinary pathway around crime, justice, law, investigations, and human behavior. Following foundational study of criminality and the legal system, students can select coursework spanning areas such as:
- Courts and criminal justice
- International crime and criminal justice
- Investigative methods and forensic science
- Security investigations and interviewing
- Forensic accounting and fraud
- White-collar crime
- Victimology
- Drugs, society, and crime
- Human trafficking
- Cultural and behavioral dimensions of crime
What Will You Study?
Students explore criminal behavior and the institutions responsible for preventing, investigating, adjudicating, and responding to crime. Depending on the pathway selected, the minor can provide specialized exposure to legal systems, investigations, forensic methods, aviation security, aerospace law, victimology, financial crime, human trafficking, and behavioral dimensions of criminal justice.
Why Criminal Justice at Embry-Riddle?
This is not simply a traditional criminal justice minor. Its interdisciplinary design draws on Embry-Riddle Worldwide’s strengths in aviation, aerospace, homeland security, security and intelligence, emergency services, psychology, and applied social science. The Aerospace Specialization provides a particularly distinctive opportunity to examine criminal justice within aviation and aerospace environments, while the Focus Area allows students to build a pathway aligned with their individual interests and career goals.
Hosted By
The Components of Criminal Justice
Info: A Combined Worldwide and Prescott Discussion on Career Opportunities, Research, and Student Paths to Success
Launch of Our New Criminal Justice Minor
Info: One minor, two pathways: a distinctive Aerospace Specialization connecting criminal justice to aviation and aerospace, and a flexible Focus Area allowing students to explore investigations, forensics, crime, victimology, law, and human behavior. /// The Minor in Criminal Justice provides students with a foundational understanding of crime, law, and security in both domestic and global contexts. Required coursework covers criminality, an introduction to the U.S. legal system, homeland security, and aviation and aerospace law.
Event venue
Prescott -Academic Complex 1, Room 104 (Prescott Campus) - 4 pm MST, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, United States
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