The goal of this research was to study the customary law experience of the Permian peoples in the sphere of crime prevention. To achieve this goal, the author studied the specific features of the model of crime prevention in the ethnic community and the methods of legal education used by the Permian peoples and aimed at crime prevention. The object of research is the customary law norms and institutes, as well as traditional beliefs common for the Permian peoples and widely used in the customary law practices of the eastern Finno-Ugrians. The study uses different research approaches. Thus, the use of some elements of the civilization and formation approaches contributed to the analysis of the object of this work from the standpoint of the development of public, spiritual and moral, general cultural relations in the Permian ethno-local society. The anthropological approach was necessary for the analysis of the mentality and legal consciousness of some ethno-local groups of the Permian peoples and their influence on the early detection and prevention of crimes. The institutional approach, the elements of which were used in the current study, made it possible to show the mutual correlation between the customary law sources of law, the forms of positive law and state institutions. The historical approach gave the author an opportunity to describe certain elements of customary law of the Permian peoples as part of the legal system of the Russian state. The methodological basis of this study is the integral complex of the cognition methods used not only in the contemporary legal science, but also in other humanities. These are the historic-legal, systemic, structural-functional, formal legal, comparative legal methods, the method of logical analysis, etc. Special attention is paid to the text analysis of legal, mythological, historical sources, as well as the reconstruction of the elements of common law experience in the sphere of crime prevention in the customary law of the Permian peoples. The author attempts to identify the specific feature of legal education, and the causes of the effectiveness of customary law norms. She presents a comparative legal analysis of the sources of law, such as the retrospective normative legal acts, as well as the historical-legal, ethnographic, folklore data. The research of ethno-linguists, ethnologists, studies in pedagogics, the theory and history of law are used to reconstruct the genesis and replication of the specific features of the customary law experience in the sphere of crime prevention in the customary law of the Permian peoples.