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Purpose and Need for Study (Heimer, Lauritsen & Lynch 2009): Authors seeks use this rejoinder to emphasize the “big picture”—the major issues that have emerged regarding changes in the gender gap in offending over time and the use of the NCVS to illuminate such changes. address the issue of counting female and male involvement in multiple-offender incidents, and the weighting adjustments to account for changes in the redesigned NCVS. The gender gap in violent offending appears to have narrowed over time, largely because male decreases in offending have been greater than female decreases since the middle 1990s. The researchers seeks to introduce the new trends in the gender gap in offending, and by correcting some substantive misstatements about our article by SSZA.
Main Findings: (Heimer, Lauritsen & Lynch 2009):
- Authors disagree with the critique of their work by the SSZA (2009) regarding the statement on the utility of the NCVS as a source of data on crime trends, especially in case of crime disaggregated by gender. Authors underline, that this same team of researchers from SSZA previously maintained that the NCVS is a suitable data describing of the gap in female and male UCR arrest rates (Steffensmeier et al., 2005, 2006)
- Contrary, the NAS report concludes about the real decreases in the rate of crime over time, prevented the NCVS has reached a point where it cannot detect reasonably large year-to-year changes in some crime rates.
- NAS committee’s task of

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