1) Criminal mindset 2) Deliberately or knowingly 
n. Latin for "having knowledge." In criminal law, it refers to knowledge by a defendant that his/her acts were illegal or his/her statements were lies and thus fraudulent.
Scienter is a legal term that refers to intent or knowledge of wrongdoing. This means that an offending party has knowledge of the `wrongness` of an act or event prior to committing it. For example, if a man sells a car with brakes that do not work to his friend, but the seller does not know about the brake problem, then the seller has no scient.....
• (adv.) Knowingly; willfully.
(n) Scienter is used to represent the stage of awareness the defendant have about his actions, its illegality, felony at the time of the crime. The Latin word means having knowledge. So if a person take possession of an article by a mistaken identity that it was his own cannot be treated as a criminal activity as he has no knowledge that it was not...
Sci·en'ter adverb [ Latin ] (Law) Knowingly; willfully. Bouvier. 
Knowingly. Having the requisite knowledge of the wrongness/illegality of an act or conduct; guilty knowledge; knowing the impropriety/illegality associated with doing certain acts. This is often an element of liability or guilt that must be proven before a judgement or conviction can be obtained.A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, ...
[adv] - (law) deliberately or knowingly
scienter Knowingly, with knowledge.
adverb deliberately or knowingly