Antisocial Behavior and Lunar Activity: A Failure to Validate the Lunacy Myth
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 40 (3_suppl) , 1309-1310
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1977.40.3c.1309
Abstract
Police arrest records were studied to determine relationships between lunar activity and arrest rates for various classes of crimes. The data studied represented 7 yr. of police activity, and no relationship was found between lunar activity and total arrests, violence against persons, or public intoxication.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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