The authors studied 2,494 homicides that occurred in Harris County, Tex. (Houston), over a 14-year period in an effort to confirm a recent study suggesting that homicides are significantly related to phases of the moon. They found no significant relationship, although homicides did show strong day-of-week and hour-of-day cycles.
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Pokorny et al. (1974) studied this question.