![Dr. Kate Puddister smiles for a portrait in an outdoor setting.](https://news.uoguelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Kate_Puddister_500x500-edited.jpg)
Dr. Kate Puddister, a justice policy researcher in the College of Social and Applied Social Sciences, discussed public perceptions when a case fails to be prosecuted with the Toronto Star.
A lack of explanation for why a case is dropped makes it “difficult to provide public [police] accountability and oversight,” she said.
A professor in the Department of Political Science, Puddister researches law and politics and police oversight and accountability.