TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Measuring terrorism
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Cubukcu, Suat
A1  - Forst, Brian
SP  - 94
EP  - 116
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767917737808
ID  - ref1
ER  -