Accessing the Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe (MSCEE) Data Set (n=76)

My monograph, 2022Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, along with the following studies relied on data that were coded and gathered over the course of 2020-21: 



The data are being continuously updated on a bi-annual basis.


2023. Do Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe Differ from US Mass Shootings? Insights from the (MSCEE) Data SetJournal of Mass Violence Research. Onlinefirst.

2022. Comparing central and Eastern European mass shootings to American mass shootingsInternational Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Onlinefirst.

Data are accessible via the following link from my academic institution:

Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe - Anglo-American University in Prague (aauni.edu)

If using the data on their own or triangulating them with other country-level measures or cases, please cite the dataset through the following citation:

2023. Do Mass Shootings in Central and Eastern Europe Differ from US Mass Shootings? Insights from the (MSCEE) Data SetJournal of Mass Violence Research. Onlinefirst.

Please contact me (alexei.anisin@aauni.edu) if you have difficulty accessing the data, I will send you a CSV file and the codebook via email.