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Lower income inequality may also contribute to lower crime rates, see paper below.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=303838
Unfortunately, it is common in social sciences that the complete explanatory model contains a messy stew of variables. I believe it is unlikely that a "silver bullet" such as technological advancement will solve the problem of violence.
Income equality certainly does play a role. This is why I include the GWP stat as well. I don't think we're at a point where income equality fixes the problem. If we made all things equal, I think we'd end up short and more people would suffer. But that is only at the view of right now. If we increased our production output even more so that total equality would put every everyone at 4 times the poverty level, then I think this income equality issue would become the greater force in violence.
Technological advancement isn't like a policy. It changes everything. Just because you need to fix tons of problems to fix this doesn't mean technology won't. I don't think it will solve violence, but it will reduce it.