%0 Journal Article
%T Measuring Terrorism
%A Brian Forst
%A Suat Cubukcu
%J Homicide Studies
%@ 1552-6720
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1088767917737808
%X 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). 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¡ªincident 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
%K definition of terrorism
%K measurement
%K media reporting of terrorism
%K official accounts on terrorism
%K open-source data collection
%K terrorism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1088767917737808