@article{ref1,
title="Measuring terrorism",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2018",
author="Cubukcu, Suat and Forst, Brian",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="94-116",
abstract="This study investigates the extent of reporting and nature of biases in open-source (OS) terrorism databases. We compare OS accounts with official accounts on terrorism events in Turkey (1996-2012). <br><br>RESULTS indicate (a) substantial systematic discrepancy between OS and official accounts, which we attribute primarily to underreporting in OS accounts; (b) the discrepancy is not random--incident characteristics (victim/target, offender, and incident types, temporal and spatial factors) and rational factors (especially newsworthiness) matter; and (c) severity is the strongest predictor of the probability of OS coverage.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767917737808",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767917737808"
}