"punitive regulation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The government has implemented punitive regulations on businesses that fail to meet environmental standards."
Mr Chávez's price controls, punitive regulation and threats of expropriation have depressed private investment.
Under the Kirchners some private businesses have faced nationalisation or harassment by punitive regulation, while others have flourished, seemingly because the Kirchners see them as loyal (see article).
More than a few were clergymen or future clergymen, and many more were motivated by Christian faith — a useful reminder that Christian belief, including evangelical Christian belief, has historically encompassed a social vision far more capacious than the punitive regulation of people's sex lives.
The survey concerns a context of punitive regulation aimed at containing the risks of social coexistence, in a society oriented towards actions of societal control, rather than positive values.
According to Baldwin (2004), the rise of the modern regulatory state occurred in the second half of the twentieth Century in the United Kingdom following a noted increase in punitive regulation and the subsequent decline in traditional forms of self-regulation.
The position of Jews deteriorated all over Europe, their lives circumscribed by punitive regulations and mass murders.
But Mr Ritter had slapped punitive regulations on the oil and gas industry, and failed to compete effectively for big military projects.
Colin Marshal, president and chief executive of Cloud Peak Energy, called the change in accounting rules "among the most egregious" of the "punitive regulations" on coal the Obama administration had adopted, and welcomed its suspension.
These punitive regulations are limited in their scope [16], can lead to collateral damage [20], and may be more expensive than the damages due to criminal activity [21].
Sensible, not punitive, regulations in the financial sector are needed, such as standardization of new financial products so that there is more transparency.
As an entrepreneur, while you're running at full pelt building a team, refining the product and gaining funding, punitive regulations might get in the way of growing the business.
