Jihyun Kwon is a PhD candidate in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also a Vanier CGS scholar, a recipient of the Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowship, and Richard Ericson Paper Award. She is currently appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Asia Center, Seoul National University. Her research focuses on accountability, oversight, and administrative governance of law enforcement agencies. She examines the structural and functional dynamics that lead to various degrees of coordination and fragmentation among different state oversight entities. She also specializes in policy reforms related to the SDG16, such as access to justice, protecting human rights and eliminating discrimination, reporting of corruption and victimization, and independent national institutions. She has extensive knowledge of policing, corrections (prison), complaint and accountability procedures, dispute resolution, and bureaucratic governance.