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SANCHEZ VAZQUEZ, Rafael. Balance and Perspectives of the Criminal Constitutional Reform in Mexico, Five Years After its Enactment. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2014, vol.47, n.141, pp.1053-1108. ISSN 2448-4873.

The criminal constitutional reform in Mexico means cultural and epistemological rupture directed and supported by the realism and the legal guarantism. After the publication of the criminal constitutional reform on June 18, 2008, more than four years have passed, however, less than the 30 percent of the 31 states of the Republic and a federal district, observe and apply this reform in a comprehensive way. unfortunately, the obstacles are identified in: reluctance to change legal paradigms, i.e., conservation of the formalistic legal exegetical tradition through the mixed inquisitional criminal system; lack of infrastructure, human and material; Absence of harmonization of laws, proposes the creation of a unique code of criminal procedure to see how effective and efficient the procedural criminal accusatory system oral and alternative meansfor dispute resolution, which guarantees the principles: presumption of innocence, due process of law, immediacy, advertising, contradiction and equality.

Palavras-chave : Criminal Constitutional Reform; Legal Guaratism; Criminal System; Unique Code of Criminal Procedure.