The phrase "amount of punishment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the severity or extent of punishment in various contexts, such as legal, educational, or behavioral discussions.
Example: "The judge considered the amount of punishment appropriate for the crime committed."
Alternatives: "degree of punishment" or "level of punishment".
She took a tremendous amount of punishment.
In the process, Ali absorbed an ungodly amount of punishment.
It is already a crime and a certain amount of punishment is prescribed for it.
This, however, has a tendency to snap with only a small amount of punishment.
Neither should Groves have been allowed to continue on account of the amount of punishment his opponent had already absorbed in previous rounds.
Since Williams was mostly pounded up the middle, his body took the maximum amount of punishment possible, which led to a number of injuries, including ankle problems.
He took a fair amount of physical punishment from Zeb Taia and Leon Pryce but kept coming back for more, showing again the amount of untapped talent that must be out there beyond the northern heartlands, just waiting to be discovered.
However, this too would side step the broader issue by putting a disproportionate amount of the punishment on current or incoming student-athletes.
Like the multidimensional rat models described above, this model recapitulates many features of human addiction, including price inelasticity or a willingness to work harder for the same amount of drug, punishment-resistant drug seeking and an increased preference for drug over alternative 'natural' rewards.
(One dimension of this third question concerns the amount or severity of punishment; another, which is insufficiently discussed by philosophers, concerns the concrete modes of punishment that should be available, in general or for particular crimes).
In Samdo, the flexibility of norms also reflects the 'lay dilemma' in Tibetan communities (Mumford 1989) that entails people accepting a certain amount of sin or punishment for their everyday actions.
