Alan Jeffrey Lizotte is an American criminologist and Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany.
Lizotte grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he later recalled almost everyone he knew owning a gun.
His service included one tour on the USS Jouett in the Vietnam War, and one-and-a-half tours in the Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One, Unit 2, on land; he attained the rank of Second Class Petty Officer as a radioman before being discharged.
[3] As a grad student at the University of Illinois, he shared an office with Gary Kleck.
[6] In 2003, Lizotte received the Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology, and in 2014, he was named one of its fellows.