LEGAL INSTINCTS (ADOPTED FROM THE CONCRETE SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH) Golovkin Roman Borisovich, Dr of Law, professor. <...> Place of employment: Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. <...> Place of employment: Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs. <...> Department: Theory and History of State and Law chair. <...> E-mail: filimonova_ai508@mail.ru Annotation: There is an examination of the legal instincts as factors determining human behavior on the basis of the different approaches and the results of concrete sociological research in the article. <...> The authors provide a definition of legal instincts. <...>