The phrase "common punishment" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of punishment that is often used or well-known in a particular society or context. Example: In many countries, a common punishment for theft is imprisonment.
Demolishing homes is a common punishment in Pakistan's tribal areas, where residents adhere to a traditional legal code.
But instead of giving detentions, demerits or some other common punishment for skipping out, they took a rather unusual step.
Early in December, Mr Murphy faced excommunication, a fairly common punishment for members who question church doctrine.
Floggings are a common punishment in Sudan for crimes like drinking alcohol and adultery, but sentences of stoning are rare.
If the political violence of Northern Ireland rarely warrants more than a couple of paragraphs in the newspapers, the more common "punishment shootings" get even fewer.
Extrajudicial detentions, a common punishment for Chinese dissidents, are rarely handed out to foreigners, who are often deported almost immediately after being taken into custody.
The most common punishments were penitential pilgrimages, the wearing of yellow crosses on clothing (which was feared because it led to ostracism), and imprisonment.
Beheading, dismemberment and being roasted alive have, perhaps fortunately, become less common punishments for the losers in our modern games of ego.
One of the lightest and most common punishments is first to starve the prisoner and then give him or her a bowl of very greasy noodles as 'compensation.' " "According to descriptions given by those who have visited in more recent years," the paper said, high officials still receive special living conditions at Qincheng Prison".
Many of these rules can be enforced by officials with prisons and courts but the simplest and most common punishments are enacted in groups: criticism and exclusion refusing to play, in the park, market, or workplace, with those who violate norms.
Yet in his missions, flogging and shackling were common punishments.
