The phrase 'punitive attitudes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a mindset or behavior characterized by a desire to punish or exact revenge. For example: "The teacher's punitive attitudes have resulted in a hostile classroom environment."
As the poor congregated in the growing cities during the early 19th century, punitive attitudes and measure grew yet harsher.
In both groups the research found that "individuals who were exposed to the 'substance abuser' term had much more punitive attitudes toward the subject than if he was described as having a substance use disorder," Kelly said.
Back in the 1960s, pop culture – characterised by teenage girls in knee-length white boots bopping to the latest top 10 hits – used to appear both modern and benign; it was a welcome reaction against the drab postwar world of the 1950s, when punitive attitudes towards sex forced many reluctant couples into early and unwanted marriages.
But the main point is surely the contrast between the increasing orderliness of society and the examples of endemic corruption, destruction of evidence, misuse of firearms, punitive attitudes to innocent members of the public, racism, excessive force, the misuse of undercover policing operations and deaths in custody that litter the record of British police.
The anonymity of online commentary often brings out the ugly side of public prejudice, and government digital advisers cannot have failed to anticipate that the new Spending Challenge site would quickly become bloated with "ideas" emphasising the most ludicrously punitive attitudes towards welfare claimants and asylum seekers.
The present study explores the possibility of cultural differences in punitive attitudes.
She said the room was indicative of "a punitive attitude toward children".
But they do so brutalised, lacking skills and ostracised by a society with a punitive attitude towards criminals.
Even if you are not travelling on Ryanair, whose punitive attitude towards its passengers has now reached hilarious dimensions, there's always a limit to that holiday library.
Before the 80-year-old sheriff won national fame for exercising self help in enforcing his own personal immigration policy, he was known for his punitive attitude toward prison inmates in his custody.
On the public punitive attitude scale, which uses standardized questions to measure public demand for punishment, the United States ranked the highest out of nearly 30 countries, mostly in Europe.
