Resources

Materials from the Sozosei Lab leadership, fellows, and collaborators to support researchers, system leaders, policymakers, and funders.

Reports

A National Strategic Research Framework to Decriminalize Mental Illness.

The Sozosei Lab’s foundational document outlining priority research areas for ending the criminalization of mental illness.
Publication Year: 2025

A National Strategic Research Framework To Decriminalize Mental Illness: A Selective Annotated Bibliography Representing The State Of Knowledge.

A selective, annotated bibliography representative of the research related to the involvement of people with serious mental illnesses in the criminal legal system, and interventions designed to reduce involvement.
Publication Year: 2025

How States Leveraged Federal Funding Mechanisms in 2014–2024 to Expand and Enhance Mental Health Crisis Response and Stabilization Services.

A detailed policy analysis of federal funding opportunities that states have leveraged to improve crisis care.
Publication Year: 2026

Building the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Workforce.

A proposed strategy and policy recommendations for building a sustainable crisis response workforce.
Publication Year: 2026

Sozosei Lab Research & Policy Briefs

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Books

Entangled

How People with Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems.

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