Lunar effect

Could it be that the phase of our natural satellite has a compelling grip on the human psyche?  Many emergency room medical practitioners, police officers, psychiatrists on call, and some biological psychologists who have more of an affinity for astrology than astronomy will quickly repudiate anyone who disparages the idea that the lunar effect – that is, the ‘full moon syndrome’ – is not real.  Women, for fact of a certain, although loose, biological synchronicity, know better than men that the lunar phase cycle is about 28 days; but, indeed, this is a loose correlation and meta-analysis shows that the moon’s cycle is not necessarily directly correlated to women’s.  But what about crime, though?  Anecdotal evidence from your average deputy sheriff or emergency room staff will report that violent crime tends to sharply increase on a full moon night.  Could some sort of positive ion charge increase, gravitational energy upswing, or some harkening back to a hunter-gatherer mentality (yes there were hunter-gatherers in a young-earth creation framework) be the pistons driving the engine of violence on the bright nights?  Or maybe, just maybe, go out on a limb and suppose that full moon nights afford criminals, and everyone else (which are targets for violent criminals) extra light by which to see and there are simply more people out on these nights.  The same would go for temperature, where a least-squared regression analysis would show a high correlation between temperature and crime.  So, do the moon and the weather have some sort of paranormal influence on human behavior, particularly of the malevolent variety?  Why yes, if by ‘paranormal’ when mean that metaphysical premise that available natural light and ambient temperature hold sway on the movement of creatures throughout their cities and thus increase human-human interaction…which inevitably involves human nature.  “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.” (-Arthur Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes”, ‘The Adventure of the Copper Beeches’)