If a party to a contract has an intent to deceive the other party, this is known as: a. scienter. b. revision. c. rescission. d. optimization.

A is the correct answer.

Scienter is when a party to a contract has the knowledge and intent to deceive the other party.

If a party to a contract has an intent to deceive the other party, this is known as:

a.Scienter

Scienter is a term for intent of wrongdoing. For example, if a person sells a bicycle with bad brakes and she knows about the brake problem, then the seller has scienter.  The word has the root scie from the Latin (knowingly).

c. wright mills's sociological imagination suggest investigating to explain this increase?

answer; negative punishment;