This paper is the third part of an ongoing research project by Andersson et al. 2014 using Interactive Voice Response, an innovative automatic telephone assessment to study Swedish paroled offenders in the first 30 days after prison. Repeated measures of qualitative reports on daily most stressful events (stressors) and quantitative severity ratings (stress) were used to study the perception of stress in the immediate prison release phase. Adding to the knowledge about prisoners’ reentry by exploring paroled offenders’ perception on daily stressful events and the stress intensity associated with these was the main purpose of this essay. Following a phenomenological approach, daily stressful events could be categorized into social, psychological and physical stressors and an insight in the everyday complexities through the reports of paroled offenders could be provided. While social stressors build the largest category, physical stressors are on average perceived as most severe. Overall stress severity shows an increase over the duration of the study period. The findings further support the feasibility of daily automated telephone assessments in the context of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Keywords: immediate prison release, Interactive Voice Response, paroled offenders, stress & stressors, transition phase

Plus de 80 000 libérations des prisons de France ont été enregistrées chaque année au cours de la dernière décennie. La question du devenir pénal des sortants de prison s’impose dans une réflexion générale sur la récidive et la réinsertion sociale. Un échantillon de la population carcérale a été constituée à partir d’un terrain professionnel afin d’étudier les parcours et les profils sociaux des sortants. Cette recherche, dans une approche quantitative et qualitative, tente de dégager les déterminants sociaux les plus prédictifs de l’évolution du parcours post-carcéral.L’analyse des effets des fins de peines aménagées, et plus généralement les parcours de vie, permet d’isoler un certain nombre de facteurs qui marquent, en tendance, la poursuite d’un parcours pénal. La nature et la qualité du lien social qui caractérise l’individu avant l’incarcération, déterminent la poursuite d’un parcours pénal ou son interruption. Se trouve également réaffirmée la plus forte répression de l’illégalisme populaire (vol, violence, infraction au code de la route), délinquance touchée le plus largement par la récidive, et caractéristique des couches sociales les plus pauvres. / More than 80 000 inmates have been released from French prisons in the last ten years. Questions about these releasees had to be studied from the point of view of recidivism and social reintegration. A sample of the French inmate population has been built, from a professional field, to study the social profiles and courses of the released inmates. This study tries, by quantitative and qualitative approach, to find the most predictive social determinants of the individual post-custodial journey.Analysing the results of sentence adjustments, and more generally life courses, made it possible to isolate a number of factors that can predict the pursuit (or not) of a criminal route.The nature and the quality of the integration into the social fabric before custody, defines the continuation or interruption of a criminal life.The strongest repression of the most common offences (theft, violence, reckless driving) is also confirmed by the study as well as the fact that the segment of the population most affected by repeat offenses are the poorest classes.