Patrick Leonard

Gang violence on the digital street: Case study of a South Side Chicago gang member’s Twitter communication

Desmond U. Patton, Jeffrey Lane, Patrick Leonard et al. · New Media & Society · 2016 · 87 citations

Digital Society, Online Communication, Gang Violence +22

Stop and Frisk Online: Theorizing Everyday Racism in Digital Policing in the Use of Social Media for Identification of Criminal Conduct and Associations

Desmond U. Patton, Douglas-Wade Brunton, Andrea L. Dixon et al. · Social Media + Society · 2017 · 65 citations · Full text

Critical Race Theory, Community Policing, Social Medium Monitoring +18

When Twitter Fingers Turn to Trigger Fingers: a Qualitative Study of Social Media-Related Gang Violence

Desmond U. Patton, David C. Pyrooz, Scott H. Decker et al. · International Journal of Bullying Prevention · 2019 · 42 citations

Lateral Violence, Organized Crime, Social Media +9

“Police took my homie I dedicate my life 2 his revenge”: Twitter tensions between gang-involved youth and police in Chicago

Desmond U. Patton, Patrick Leonard, Loren Cahill et al. · Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment · 2016 · 29 citations

Community Policing, Hash Tag, Criminal Justice Reform +25

What’s a Threat on Social Media? How Black and Latino Chicago Young Men Define and Navigate Threats Online

Desmond U. Patton, Patrick Leonard, Caitlin Elaesser et al. · Youth & Society · 2017 · 27 citations · Full text

Online Communication, Online Communities, Media Violence +22