A society in which there are many crimes, such as thefts and murders, should not be called lawless   That is an abuse of the meaning of words  As a suffix, -less means without,  so lawless means without laws   However, a society that has no laws has no crimes, because no laws can be broken  A lawless society would, ttherefore, be a crimeless society
So what some have termed a lawless society should actually be called crimeful
A society that has no crimes has no laws.