Research is knowledge acquired through reasoning, intuition and the use of appropriate methods. The scientific method involves a series of steps used to investigate a natural event. It is a process in which scientists, over time, build an accurate representation of the world. The Scientific Method involves six phases; finding the problem/question, observation/research, formulating a hypothesis, experimenting, collecting and analyzing the results and finding a conclusion. For starters, you should start by finding what your topic is and defining the problem (usually a question), a question about your topic that should need an answer, making sure the topic is not too vague, collect and organize information ( Research) and creating a testable hypothesis (Walliman, 2005). A hypothesis is a statement that can be proven or disproved. It's basically an educated guess/explanation of how things work. You can have more than one proposed hypothesis for a research paper. If there are cases as such, it will always be narrowed down to just one and the scientific method/process will continue. A hypothesis must be testable in order for it to be proven or disproved (Prunckun, 2014). An example of a hypothesis in relation to criminal justice is “If an officer is wearing a camera while they are doing their job, then, to begin the process of experimenting there are things that need to be determined and designed in order to test the hypothesis (Walliman, 2005 ) In the process of the experiment there would be observations, records and data. Everything that is found is considered raw data and can be used to determine the effects that different variables have on the experiment you should always rely on facts and not opinions. Scientists use drawings, tables, graphs, diagrams and photographs, written observations and records (Walliman,