The Time Before the Crime: Risk Patterns in Individuals Who Commit Criminal Acts and Undergo a Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation
Conditions: Crime
Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet

Date: 2025-08-31 
Unique Protocol ID: 2024-07566-01 
Title: The Time Before the Crime - Risk Patterns in Offenders Undergoing a Forensic 
Psychiatric Evaluation (Tibec) 
Principal Investigator: Katarina Howner, Associate professor, Karolinska Institutet 
 
 

Review Template: Variables for Review of Section 7 
Examinations and Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations 
Variable 
Outcome 
Case number (Swedish National Board of 
Forensic Medicine) 
 
Date of review 
 
Reviewer (name) 
 
Criminal charge(s) (free text) 
 
 
Index offense, criminal charge (free text) 
 
 
Violent crime (including arson and 
robbery) 
Yes □ No □ 
Lethal violence (including manslaughter 
and attempted murder) 
Yes □ No □ 
Sexual offense 
Yes □ No □ 
Age at index offence 
 
Gender 
Male □ Female □ 
Previous convictions 
Yes □ No □ 
Previous entries in criminal record 
(number) 
 
Relationship with victim/complainant 
Unknown □ Acquaintance □ Close 
relationship □ Family □ Partner □ 
Modus operandi, in violent crime 
Blunt force □ Knife □ Firearm □ 
Strangulation □ Other □ 
Intoxication at the time of the offense 
Drugs □ Alcohol □ Sober □  
Unknown □ 

Suicide attempt in connection with the 
offense 
Yes □ No □ Unknown □ 
Contact with psychiatric services 
Ever □ Past month □ Past week □ 
Past 24 hours □   No □ Unknown □ 
Primary diagnosis (free text) 
 
Secondary diagnosis/diagnoses (free 
text) 
 
Assessed to have a severe mental 
disorder (SMD) at the time of the offense 
Yes □ No □ 
Assessed to have SMD at the time of the 
evaluation 
Yes □ No □ 
Lacked capacity for insight and/or 
behavioral control 
Yes □ Impaired □ No □  
Not answered □ 
Mental disorder not classified as severe 
Yes □ No □ 
District Court Ruling (free text) 
 
Court of Appeal Ruling (free text) 
 
 
Note: SMD = Severe Mental Disorder (Swedish: Allvarlig Psykisk Störning)