The phrase "a deterrent impact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the effect of a policy, action, or measure intended to discourage certain behaviors or actions.
Example: "The new regulations are expected to have a significant deterrent impact on illegal activities in the area."
Alternatives: "a discouraging effect" or "a preventive influence."
"We think this not only is going well in terms of collecting money, but it's having a real deterrent impact," Ms. Smith said about the sweeps.
Obama needs "to find the right target set that will be punitive and that will have a strong deterrent impact on Assad's potential future use of chemical weapons," said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee.
For serious crimes such as murder, hate crime laws are unlikely to have a significant deterrent impact; if the perpetrator was not deterred by the already severe punishment for the underlying crime, why would they be deterred by the threat of additional punishment from a hate crime sanction?
Lead researcher UCSF's Professor Stanton Glantz, described how smoke-free workplace laws have the most powerful effect on smoking initiation, equivalent to the deterrent impact of a $1.57 £1.022) tax increase.
Not only is the death penalty the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment with no special deterrent impact, but public displays of killing also perpetuate a culture of acceptance of violence.
Though Lubanga has been convicted, many who committed rape and murder remain at large, limiting the court's deterrent impact.
The deterrent impact of these checkpoints has been noted on several occasions when they resumed operation unexpectedly and a great number of aliens were apprehended.
The city's expert appeared to be trying to "to justify stops on the basis of their deterrent impact, regardless of their legality," Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote.
Not only is this a deterrent, but also negatively impacts, reading time, comprehension, and memory of the material read [ 5].
The official impact assessment adds that the published evidence shows that making sentences more severe only has a minimal impact as a deterrent and that increasing the likelihood of being caught is actually more effective.
