Guanajuato, Gto., November 25, 2016. The University of Guanajuato (UG) was the scenario for the first presentation in the country of the book "2016: The birth of the New Criminal Justice in Mexico", text that describes how the reform gave, step by step, place to the new criminal accusatory system who picks up analyses from scholars of eight years of beginning the process of transformation.

The text, coordinated by the Senator Pilar Ortega Martínez and the General Director of the National Institute of Criminal Sciences and Dean-Councilor of the National Commission of the Human Rights, Rafael Estrada Michel, is divided in two parts: "Perspectives of the New Criminal Justice" and "Select topics of the New Criminal Justice System."

The first, explained in the text's presentation, UG's General Rector, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, constitutes the testimonial part, that picks up the vision of the involved, legislators, functionaries; and the second constitutes the critical part of the work.

To dimension the importance of the topic addressed in the text, Dr. Guerrero, Ph.D. in Criminal Law, exposed that the penal process is an instrument to face two large social evils: impunity and acts of injustice.

He explained that in Mexico –before 2008—there was a penal process of inquisitive court, and with the reform, it gave place for an accusatory court, which grants more rights to the victim, and above all, the imputed.

The book, as pointed by Dr. Guerrero, has the narrative of how from 2008 there was the process of transition to the new system of criminal justice, and considered that the challenge now, is to make a great labor of systematization of the penal part with process part, to avoid application problems that translate in impunity and injustice.

On his part, Senator Pilar Ortega thanked UG for opening its doors for the book's presentation, which gathers 23 works that reflect since the legislative design of the reform, until the problems in its implementation.

Among the collaborator authors are Enrique Burgos García, Roberto Gil Zuarth, César Camacho Quiroz, Miguel Carbonell Sánchez, Patricia Lucila González Rodríguez, Leticia Bonifaz Alonso, Arely Gómez González & Eduardo Martínez-Bastida, all are acknowledged experts in the topic.

Whilst commenting the book, M.A. Paulino Lorea Hernández, made a recognition to the coordinators of the work, that –he said—will continue reading and consulting for containing valuable data and reflections.

UG's scholar, Magister and Ex-Procurer of Justice of the State, M.A. Daniel Chowell Arenas, made a critic description of the book's content and sustained that in Mexico there is a historic disability to apply the law, however, he was convinced that the New System of Criminal Law is much better than the previous model.