Biomedical Profile of a Convict Serving Imprisonment: Issues of Meaningful Interpretation and Prospects for Legal Regulation
Teplyashin P.V., Teplyashina E.A. Biomedical profile of a convict serving imprisonment: issues of meaningful interpretation and prospects for legal regulation. Penitentiary Science, 2026, vol. 20, no. 2 (74), pp. 180–189. doi 10.46741/2713-2811.2026.74.2.008.
the article substantiates introduction of the category “biomedical profile of
a convict” into scientific and practical circulation as a promising digital model for moderning the
penitentiary system. The relevance of the study is related to technological trends, the need for
objective data for individualization of punishment, correctional and preventive effects on convicts,
and the presence of significant legal gaps in the field of biomedical data turnover. Purpose: to propose
a model of the biomedical profile of a convicted person, to determine its substantive structure and
purpose, as well as to formulate a draft comprehensive legislative regulation of its formation and
use to improve the effectiveness of convict correction and risk management. Methods: the study
was conducted using the analysis and synthesis of socio-legal phenomena, system-structural
and formal-logical analysis, hermeneutics of legal norms and the comparative method, which has
provided an interdisciplinary approach at the junction of penal doctrine, criminology and biomedical
sciences. Results: the author’s definition of a convict’s biomedical profile is formulated as a dynamic
multilevel digital model integrating genomic, biometric, physiological, biochemical and behavioral
data. The structural blocks and objectives of its application are substantiated: from identification
and risk management to rehabilitation planning. The authors suggest a model of legal regulation,
in particular, a federal law based on the principles of data minimization, transparency and “digital
oblivion”. Conclusion: the proposed model is a tool for the transition to the “precision” execution of
punishments. Practical implementation of the model is possible only within the framework of a largescale
legislative reform designed to ensure a balance between innovative capacities of biomedical
technologies and the inviolability of human rights.
Keywords: biomedical data of convicts; digital model; individualization of punishment; resocialization; bioethics; algorithmic solutions; post-penitentiary support.
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