Collecting international terrorism database is a challenging task not only
for criminal justice personnel but also for criminologists in comparison to the
case of common types of crime database. Yet, there has been growing interests
and efforts in establishing a comprehensive terrorist events data base in the
world. This current study has a goal to introduce an example world terrorism
database case developed by START center in the United States. The START
center developed the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) on the basis of by the
Pinkerton Global Intelligence Service data (PGIS) originally collected by the
Pinkerton. Furthermore, The START expended the GTD by collecting data from
open source terrorist event data via internet and other resources. In this study,
specifically, it describes the development and the nature of the GTD in general
and the data collection efforts made by the STATA until today. Finally, this
study provides a sketchy of the nature of the GTD data by showing the
descriptive statistical analyses and time-series analyses result illustrating
distribution of the world terrorism events. The limitation, policy implications
and contribution of this study discussed in this paper.