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Why reflection occurs in crystals?

Why do reflections occur in crystals? Why not transmission only? How can atomic planes work as mirrors?
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Bragg diffraction and lattice planes

Crystalline substances show, for certain sharply defined wavelength and incident directions, very sharp peaks of scattered X-ray radiation. From the illustration below we see that we get constructive ...
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