The phrase "deterrent penalties" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing consequences intended to discourage certain behaviors or actions, often in legal or regulatory contexts.
Example: "The government has implemented deterrent penalties for those who violate environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "punitive measures" or "discouraging sanctions."
We need to update our labor laws to give workers a real voice on the job by setting real, deterrent-sized penalties and fines and enforceable remedies for employers who violate workers' rights to organize.
Because there is only a small chance of being caught, a penalty big enough to put off a budding price-fixer may be many times his wealth and hence unpayable.There is some evidence to suggest that the personal sanctions are a more effective deterrent than financial penalties.
Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice-president for labor relations asserted that the drop in the number of players who failed a drug test in 2006 was attributable to the deterrent effect of harsher penalties in the upgraded program.
"I do not believe" that the $1.5 million penalty "is anywhere close to an amount representing a sufficient penalty or deterrent".
The interval between crime and punishment in the Philippines is getting longer, weakening the deterrent effect the death penalty is supposed to have.
In the preceding weeks, he had heard arguments on the subject from prosecutors who spoke of the death penalty's deterrent effect and from the grieving relatives of murder victims who saw in it fierce justice.
A larger value of (bar{delta }) indicates a weaker deterrent effect of the penalty phase because worker (i) must value the future payoff more highly in order to dissuaded from shirking.
No study looks at what really matters, by comparing the deterrent effects of capital punishment with other penalties, like life without parole.
It has been criticised for both its strength and its use of the death penalty as a deterrent – although the act itself did not refer to the death penalty, it made provision for civilians breaking these rules to be tried in army courts martial, where the maximum penalty was death.
And for those convicted, the penalties are scant deterrent.
