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Anarchy =/= Anarchism. 

Anarchy = Lawlessness, chaos, the kind of thing almost everyone immediately pictures when they hear the word. Usually associated with dystopias, post-apocalypses, and flagrant criminal activity (think Heath Ledger's 'Joker'), defined by being without cause or meaning. 

Anarchism = A political ideology formerly known as libertarianism (before that term was co-opted to refer to regulation-free capitalism) that advocates for the abolition of the current state/government and the formation of a free, voluntary workers democracy built from the "bottom-up" instead of the current "top down" arrangement, based upon mutual aid, where workers co-operatively own businesses and earn the value of their labor ("from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs") instead of one person profiting from "owning" a business or land while the wealth he produces is made by the people working under him that he hires for less than the wealth they individually produce. So yes, Anarchists believe in laws, primarily social laws that are enforced within local communities (do not murder, do not steal, do not violate other's autonomy, kids listen to parents, be kind to others), but typically not state laws that restrict basic human freedoms (such as abortion bans, closed borders, or bans that target specific groups of people). The nitty gritty details about how such systems function differentiates between different groups of thought (i.e. anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-mutualism, anarcho-communism, etc), some believe in the abolition of the 'commodity form', while others believe in some form of market socialism or free-market anti-capitalism (where people can freely trade, but nobody can accumulate capital).

When most people say they are "anarchists", Anarchism, not anarchy, is typically what they are referring to. Anarchism is also what a lot of hardcore/street/crust punk bands from the '80s-90s were referring to (thus, the 'anarcho-punk' subgenre). Although, punk lost a lot of it's political messaging when it became commercialized through 'pop punk' in the '90s/'00s, and in the process, a lot of 'anarchism' imagery inherit in the subculture, such as the infamous "(A)" -- was intentionally turned into an 'edgy' cultural symbol to refer to general "anarchy" (think "screw you mom", "i won't do what you tell me", "f*ck the government").

if you hate the law but dislike criminals, then you don't hate the law??

how can you dislike breakers of the law if you don't want law??? what??

are you looking for reform? that doesn't sound like anarchy lmao