The phrase "deterrent measures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or strategies intended to discourage certain behaviors or actions, often in the context of law enforcement or security.
Example: "The government implemented several deterrent measures to prevent cybercrime and protect sensitive information."
Alternatives: "preventive actions" or "discouragement strategies".
Aside from the moral aspect, such deterrent measures are also counter-productive.
Jon Sparkes, head of Crisis wrote in the Guardian: "Such deterrent measures are also counterproductive.
This distinctive resolution also demands the need to intensify the regulatory campaigns and take the deterrent measures against the violating employers.
Such an effort would include controlled breeding in urban dovecotes, increased deterrent measures like netting and possibly feed laced with birth control drugs.
Interviewed by the national homelessness charity Crisis, rough sleepers reported being hosed with water by security guards to make them move on, and an increase in the use of other "deterrent" measures.
Human rights groups warn that deterrent measures taken by the Obama administration after last year's "surge" in arrivals at the border of unaccompanied children from Central America have triggered a series of powerful unintended consequences across the region.
And some are joking and saying that the only deterrent measure we have left is Arik Sharon".
"It's more of a deterrent measure than an operational message".
"From our standpoint this was always meant to be an educational and deterrent measure," said Frances Moore, chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group.
But to a startup like Path that, despite having raised some $40 million in venture capital, still doesn't have a firm revenue model in place, it's a more significant deterrent measure.
"The inhumane conditions for adults are a result of an administrative use of detention as punitive, deterrent measure".
